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was standing close by, put his arm round her and drew her
towards him, saying—
‘Come, darling, let us make the best of things. It will only
be for a time, I hope, that we shall have to be stingy and par-
ticular. Kiss me.’
His native warm-heartedness took a great deal of quench-
ing, and it is a part of manliness for a husband to feel keenly
the fact that an inexperienced girl has got into trouble by
marrying him. She received his kiss and returned it faintly,
and in this way an appearance of accord was recovered for
the time. But Lydgate could not help looking forward with
dread to the inevitable future discussions about expendi-
ture and the necessity for a complete change in their way
of living.