Chapter VIIIIt was three days later that Thurly made his decision. The shoe had to go back, and the manly thing to do was to take it. He had decided also that in any case, shoe or no shoe, it was only decent to call and see if the lady had suffered any damages from her exposure in the storm.
Thurly had arrived at this decision after hours of argument with himself. Now he was all contempt for the girl who had dared to enter a man’s room and search for cigarettes, again he was all tenderness for the fairy-like little person he had carried on his shoulder through the storm. The matter was getting on his nerves and obtruding itself between him and his work. He felt that it must be finished up, cleared out of his system, and forgotten. He finally faced himself in the glass and realized that so
