`` I expect there 'll be some sulking , St. George . Yes , Saint , I expect we are in for a few unpleasant foggy days . Well , we 'll weather them through , George . We 've dealt with foolish children before , Saint . Rosemary 'll sulk a while -- and then she 'll get over it -- and all will be as before , George . She promised -- and she 's got to keep her promise . And that 's the last word on the subject I 'll say to you or her or anyone , Saint . '' But Ellen lay savagely awake till morning . There was no sulking , however . Rosemary was pale and quiet the next day , but beyond that Ellen could detect no difference in her . Certainly , she seemed to bear Ellen no grudge . It was stormy , so no mention was made of going to church . In the afternoon Rosemary shut herself in her room and wrote a note to John Meredith . She could not trust herself to say `` no '' in person . She felt quite sure that if he suspected she was saying `` no '' reluctantly he would not take it for an answer , and she could not face pleading or entreaty . She must make him think she cared nothing at all for him and she could do that only by letter . She wrote him the stiffest , coolest little refusal imaginable . It was barely courteous ; it certainly left no loophole of hope for the boldest lover -- and John Meredith was anything but that . He shrank into himself , hurt and mortified , when he read Rosemary 's letter next day in his dusty study . But under his mortification a dreadful realization presently made itself felt .
He had thought he did not love Rosemary as deeply XXXXX he had loved Cecilia .
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