The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 19 Page 14

Her face grew white, and for a moment she bowed her head on his hand.

“Please, Doctor Thryng, let me tell you the strange part first, then you can answer that question in your own way.” She lifted her head and looked steadily in his eyes. “You remember that day we went to Cate Irwin’s? When we came to the place where we can see far — far over the mountains — I laughed — with something glad in my heart. It was the same this time when I got to that far open place. All at once it seemed like I was so free — free from the heavy burden — and all in a kind of light that was only the same gladness in my heart.

“I stopped there and waited and thought how you said that time, ‘It’s good just to be alive,’ and I thought if