`` KILMENY . '' `` I MUST see her , '' said Eric desperately . `` Aunt Janet , be my friend . Tell her she must see me for a little while at least . '' Janet shook her head but went upstairs . She soon returned . `` She says she can not come down . You know she means it , Master , and it is of no use to coax her . And I must say I think she is right . Since she will not marry you it is better for her not to see you . '' Eric was compelled to go home with no better comfort than this . In the morning , as it was Sunday , he drove David Baker to the station . He had not slept and he looked so miserable and reckless that David felt anxious about him . David would have stayed in Lindsay for a few days , but a certain critical case in Queenslea demanded his speedy return . He shook hands with Eric on the station platform . `` Eric , give up that school and come home at once . You can do no good in Lindsay now , and you 'll only eat your heart out here . '' `` I must see Kilmeny once more before I leave , '' was all Eric 's answer . That afternoon he went again to the Gordon homestead . But the result was the same ; Kilmeny refused to see him , and Thomas Gordon said gravely , `` Master , you know I like you and I am sorry Kilmeny thinks as she does , though maybe she is right .
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