They have been in love with each other for fifteen years and in all that time they have never spoken to each other once ! '' `` Dear me ! '' murmured Mrs. George , feeling the inadequacy of mere language . Was this a Penhallow method of courtship ? `` But WHY ? '' `` They had a quarrel fifteen years ago , '' said Mrs. Frederick patiently . `` Nobody knows how it originated or anything about it except that Lucinda herself admitted it to us afterwards . But , in the first flush of her rage , she told Romney that she would never speak to him again as long as she lived . And HE said he would never speak to her until she spoke first -- because , you see , as she was in the wrong she ought to make the first advance . And they never have spoken . Everybody in the connection , I suppose , has taken turns trying to reconcile them , but nobody has succeeded . I do n't believe that Romney has ever so much as THOUGHT of any other woman in his whole life , and certainly Lucinda has never thought of any other man . You will notice she still wears Romney 's ring . They 're practically engaged still , of course . And Romney said once that if Lucinda would just say one word , no matter what it was , even if it were something insulting , he would speak , too , and beg her pardon for his share in the quarrel -- because then , you see , he would not be breaking his word . He has n't referred to the matter for years , but I presume that he is of the same mind still . And they are just as much in love with each other as they ever were . He 's always hanging about where she is -- when other people are there , too , that is . He avoids her like a plague when she is alone . That was why he was stuck out in the blue room with us to-day .
There does n't seem XXXXX be a particle of resentment between them .
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