`` I 'd like to see them the day they appear out in church , '' chuckled Dan . `` How 'll he ever manage to bring her in and show her into the pew ? I 'll bet he 'll go in first -- or tramp on her dress -- or fall over his feet . '' `` Maybe he wo n't go to church at all the first Sunday and she 'll have to go alone , '' said Peter . `` That happened in Markdale . A man was too bashful to go to church the first time after getting married , and his wife went alone till he got used to the idea . '' `` They may do things like that in Markdale but that is not the way people behave in Carlisle , '' said Felicity loftily . Seeing the Story Girl slipping away with a disapproving face I joined her . `` What is the matter , Sara ? '' I asked . `` I hate to hear them talking like that about Miss Reade and Mr. Dale , '' she answered vehemently . `` It 's really all so beautiful -- but they make it seem silly and absurd , somehow . '' `` You might tell me all about it , Sara , '' I insinuated . `` I would n't tell -- and I 'd understand . '' `` Yes , I think you would , '' she said thoughtfully . `` But I ca n't tell it even to you because I ca n't tell it well enough yet . I 've a feeling that there 's only one way to tell it -- and I do n't know the way yet . Some day I 'll know it -- and then I 'll tell you , Bev . '' Long , long after she kept her word . Forty years later I wrote to her , across the leagues of land and sea that divided us , and told her that Jasper Dale was dead ; and I reminded her of her old promise and asked its fulfilment .
In reply she sent me the written love story XXXXX Jasper Dale and Alice Reade .
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