The Little Lady of The Big House by Jack London Chapter 26 Page 5

and stand contemplating the Keith on the opposite wall as if he had never seen it before.

She waited with a quiet smile, pleasuring in his unruly impetuousness.

“You can’t love two men at once,” he flung at her.

“Oh, but I do, Evan. That’s what I am trying to work out. Only I don’t know which I love more. Dick I have known a long time. You� you are a — ”

“Recent acquaintance,” he broke in, returning to her with the same angry stride.

“Not that, no, not that, Evan. You have made a revelation to me of myself. I love you as much as Dick. I love you more. I — I don’t know.”