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43.<br />
28 INT. SUSY’S BEDROOM - NIGHT 28<br />
Now, in the quiet of her own room, Susy lay and pondered on<br />
the distance she had traveled during the last year.<br />
NARRATOR<br />
Apparently even Ellie had been<br />
obscurely aware of the change, for<br />
after a first attempt to force her<br />
confidences on Susy she had<br />
contented herself with vague<br />
expressions of gratitude, allusive<br />
smiles and sighs, and the pretty<br />
"surprise" of the sapphire bangle<br />
slipped onto her friend’s wrist in<br />
the act of their farewell embrace.<br />
The door opened and Nick came in.<br />
Dusk had fallen, and she could not see his face; but<br />
something in the jerk of the door-handle roused her<br />
ever-wakeful apprehension.<br />
She hurried toward him with outstretched wrist.<br />
SUSY<br />
Look, dearest-wasn’t it too darling<br />
of Ellie?<br />
She pressed the button of the lamp that lit her<br />
dressing-table, and her husband’s face started unfamiliarly<br />
out of the twilight.<br />
She slipped off the bracelet and held it up to him.<br />
NICK<br />
Oh, I can go you one better,<br />
He said with a laugh; and pulling a morocco case from his<br />
pocket he flung it down among the scent-bottles.<br />
Susy opened the case automatically, staring at the pearl<br />
because she was afraid to look again at Nick.<br />
SUSY<br />
Ellie-gave you this?<br />
She asked at length.<br />
NICK<br />
Yes. She gave me this.<br />
(pause)<br />
Would you mind telling me.
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