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I certainly recommend the former , as I can not spare you from ` Maga . ' '' Here the carriage stopped at Mrs. Andrews 's door , and as he handed her out Mr. Manning said : `` Edna , my friend , promise me that you will not write to-night . '' `` Thank you , Mr. Manning ; I promise . '' She did not go to her desk ; but Felix was restless , feverish , querulous , and it was after midnight when she laid her head on her pillow . The milkmen in their noisy carts were clattering along the streets next morning , before her heavy eyelids closed , and she fell into a brief , troubled slumber ; over which flitted a Fata Morgana of dreams , where the central figure was always that tall one whom she had seen last standing at the railroad station with the rain dripping over him . `` Let thy abundant blessing rest upon it , O Almighty God ! else indeed my labor will be in vain .