Out of her sphere - University Library

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nising Temple Masters, drew herself up
with a little cry.
" I won't go back !" she said ;
come to fetch me !
'' if you've
I—I won't go back,"
and then she began to cry almost hys-
terically ;
and she was one of those women
to whom tears are almost as strange as they
are to men. But Temple Masters, remem-
bering how she had parted with her hus-
band, was not astonished at them.
Mr. Harrup now came in. He had
stayed outside to take off his boots and
outer coat. He was a bluff, red-faced, large
man, who took low comedy and jovial
farmers; he went up to his niece, and
looked menacingly at Mr. Masters. He
might have looked less threateningly had
not the lady distinguished herself so well
that evening.
Temple Masters thought it
best to avert the rising storm at once.
•'Mrs. Thornton," he said, "I haven't
come to take you back. Mr. Thornton