He 's waiting for you there . '' Thyra made a quick step in the direction of the gate . Then she turned , with a little of the glow dying out of her face . `` No , there 's one has a better right to go to him first . I can atone to him -- thank God , I can atone to him ! '' She went into the house and called Damaris . As the girl came down the stairs Thyra held out her hands with a wonderful light of joy and renunciation on her face . `` Damaris , '' she said , `` Chester has come back to us -- the sea has given him back to us . He is over at Carl White 's house . Go to him , my daughter , and bring him to me ! '' XI . THE EDUCATION OF BETTY When Sara Currie married Jack Churchill I was broken-hearted ... or believed myself to be so , which , in a boy of twenty-two , amounts to pretty much the same thing . Not that I took the world into my confidence ; that was never the Douglas way , and I held myself in honor bound to live up to the family traditions . I thought , then , that nobody but Sara knew ; but I dare say , now , that Jack knew it also , for I do n't think Sara could have helped telling him . If he did know , however , he did not let me see that he did , and never insulted me by any implied sympathy ; on the contrary , he asked me to be his best man . Jack was always a thoroughbred . I was best man . Jack and I had always been bosom friends , and , although I had lost my sweetheart , I did not intend to lose my friend into the bargain . Sara had made a wise choice , for Jack was twice the man I was ; he had had to work for his living , which perhaps accounts for it . So I danced at Sara 's wedding as if my heart were as light as my heels ; but , after she and Jack had settled down at Glenby I closed The Maples and went abroad ... being , as I have hinted , one of those unfortunate mortals who need consult nothing but their own whims in the matter of time and money .
I stayed away XXXXX ten years , during which The Maples was given over to moths and rust , while I enjoyed life elsewhere .
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