Catherine went stiffly about her dish-washing , resolving to have ` Liza Adams to supper some night . For a week Roger lived in agony -- an agony of shame and humiliation and self-contempt . Then , when the edge of his bitter disappointment wore away , he made another dreadful discovery . He still loved her and longed for her just as keenly as before . He wanted madly to see her -- her flower-like face , her great , asking eyes , the sleek , braided flow of her hair . Ghost or woman -- spirit or flesh -- it mattered not . He could not live without her . At last his hunger for her drew him to the old grey house on the bay shore . He knew he was a fool -- she would never look at him ; he was only feeding the flame that must consume him . But go he must and did , seeking for his lost paradise . He did not see her when he went in , but Mrs. Barr received him kindly and talked about her in a pleasant garrulous fashion which jarred on Roger , yet he listened greedily . Lilith , her aunt told him , had been made deaf by the accidental explosion of a gun when she was eight years old . She could not hear a sound but she could talk . `` A little , that is -- not much , but enough to get along with . But she do n't like talking somehow -- dunno why . She 's shy -- and we think maybe she do n't like to talk much because she ca n't hear her own voice . She do n't ever speak except just when she has to . But she 's been trained to lip-reading something wonderful -- she can understand anything that 's said when she can see the person that 's talking . Still , it 's a terrible drawback for the poor child -- she 's never had any real girl-life and she 's dreadful sensitive and retiring . We ca n't get her to go out anywhere , only for lonely walks along shore by herself .
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