I 'm going to marry him and go home with him to Scotland . '' `` And what about Randall ? '' said Janet , corpse-white . `` Oh , Randall -- pooh ! Do you suppose I 'm worrying about Randall ? But you must go to him tomorrow and tell him for me , Janet . '' `` I will not -- I will not . '' `` Then I 'll tell him myself -- and I 'll tell him about you going to Granny , '' said Avery cruelly . `` Janet , do n't stand there looking like that . I 've no patience with you . I shall be perfectly happy with Bruce -- I would have been miserable with Randall . I know I sha n't sleep a wink tonight -- I 'm so excited . Why , Janet , I 'll be Mrs. Gordon of Gordon Brae -- and I 'll have everything heart can desire and the man of my heart to boot . What has lanky Randall Burnley with his little six-roomed house to set against that ? '' If Avery did not sleep , neither did Janet . She lay awake till dawn , suffering such misery as she had never endured in her life before . She knew she must go to Randall Burnley tomorrow and break his heart . If she did not , Avery would tell him -- tell him what Janet had done . And he must not know that -- he must not . Janet could not bear that thought .
* * * * * It was a pallid , dull-eyed Janet who went through the birch wood to the Burnley farm next afternoon , leaving behind her an excited household where the sudden change XXXXX bridegrooms , as announced by Avery , had rather upset everybody .
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