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`` Sure it does ! '' he agreed contentedly . And when Jim had disgustedly departed , he remained still staring into the fire , a pleased smile upon his face . Julia spent the next day in bed fighting a threatened nervous breakdown , and Jim came to see her at two o'clock , and they had a long and memorable talk , with Jim 's chair drawn close to the couch , and the girl 's lax hand in his own . She had not slept all night , she told him , and he suspected that she had spent much of the long vigil in tears . Tears came again as she begged a hundred times to set him free , but he quieted her at last , and the old tragedy that had risen to haunt them was laid . And if Julia felt a rush of blind gratitude and hope when they sealed their new compact with a kiss , Jim was no less happy -- everything had come out wonderfully , and he loved Julia not less , but more than he had ever loved her .