She left it unresistingly in his clasp . `` I am very lonely now , Jeff , '' she said sadly . `` Father has gone . I have no friends left . '' `` You have me , '' said Jeffrey quietly . `` Yes . I should n't have said that . You are my friend , I know , Jeff . But , but -- I must leave Pinehurst , you know . '' `` I learned that tonight for the first time , '' he answered . `` Did you ever come to a place where everything seemed ended -- where it seemed that there was nothing -- simply nothing -- left , Jeff ? '' she said wistfully . `` But , no , it could n't seem so to a man . Only a woman could fully understand what I mean . That is how I feel now . While I had Father to live for it was n't so hard . But now there is nothing . And I must go away . '' `` Is there anything I can do ? '' muttered Jeffrey miserably .
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