But I will not forget and I will come back . '' Richard Barry would not even let her see Doctor John alone again . She had to bid him good-bye beneath the cold , contemptuous eyes of the man of the world . So there was just a hand-clasp and one long deep look between them that was tenderer than any kiss and more eloquent than any words . `` I will come back when I am twenty-one , '' said Marcella . And I saw Richard Barry smile . So Marcella went away and in all Bridgeport there were only two people who believed she would ever return . There is no keeping a secret in Bridgeport , and everybody knew all about the love affair between Marcella and the doctor and about the promise she had made . Everybody sympathized with the doctor because everybody believed he had lost his sweetheart . `` For of course she 'll never come back , '' said Mrs. Riddell to me . `` She 's only a child and she 'll soon forget him . She 's to be sent to school and taken abroad and between times she 'll live with the Richard Barrys ; and they move , as everyone knows , in the very highest and gayest circles . I 'm sorry for the doctor , though . A man of his age does n't get over a thing like that in a hurry and he was perfectly silly over Marcella . But it really serves him right for falling in love with a child . '' There are times when Martha Riddell gets on my nerves . She 's a good-hearted woman , and she means well ; but she rasps -- rasps terribly . Even Miss Sara exasperated me . But then she had her excuse . The child she loved as her own had been torn from her and it almost broke her heart .
But even so , I thought she ought to have had a little more faith XXXXX Marcella .
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