said: You mean that you and Karen... Then she began to laugh and laugh with that mockery... and soon she flung the necklace at Karen, crying: Take it, take it!... As for you, you must understand that I never loved you and never wished to marry you, not before and not today... And this chain — take it too... Cliff asked for my hand on the telephone this morning, and I am going to marry him.
She hurried out at the sound of Cliff's car, and soon came back wrapped in a coat of costly fur, and said from the door: I am off with Cliff to London, to spend Christmas with his family... Then she laughed, shrugging her shoulders and saying... As for that turkey, let it stay for you two... And she was gone.
Silence fell... Karen broke it, saying: Mike, pay no mind to what she said, for she was angry... Everything that happened was a mistake, so forget it.
He said: Yes, Karen, a mistake did happen — but it did not happen today; it happened long ago.
She said: No, Mike, please...
He said: They said of you in the church, “the girl who gives,” and it would have been more fitting for them to say “the sweet, good girl” whom any man would be happy to win... the girl in whom he who discovers her discovers much... Karen... my picture under your pillow, and Dorta's name on the card in the bus... Karen, kindest of all the Creator's creation... it is a story like the fairy tales, on the happiest of Christmases... my darling.
Sunbeam
She takes pride — and boasts of it!...
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