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CHAPTER XVI I ANY married couple, no matter how perfect the match, will undergo a critical period of strain, and | 1ese two were no exception. For all the dances, winter was a hemmed-in time; repetitious days E doors were a searching test of companionship. B® im Girl went into town, Laughing Boy sallied | :rth to watch over the herd: but they moved out = =: the home atmosphere together only for those | -zht or nine ceremonies. . They were attempting a difficult thing. They ~ z=eded not only to see occasional outsiders when | ey were apart, new faces made attractive by | —ec mere fact that they break the sameness, but 230 the presence of a third person when they were gether, that their solitude might retain its value, 22d their unity refresh itself from the sense of the | -utsider’s foreignness. This same life, so closely together, will make | ~oople unusually sensitive to each other’s moods: se metimes, if they are fond of each other, almost | =orbidly so. He did not answer that question; . xrhaps he thinks it was stupid.” She handed z= that cup of coffee abruptly; perhaps I have | «ended her in something.

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