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He turned to Candy just before closing the inner-office door. “Excuse us for a minute, please,” he said.
“Yes, of course,” said the bewildered girl, and she sat down again in the chair. For a moment she could hear the murmur of their voices, then something like a door slamming and she knew the young man had left. She waited a minute but the professor did not return.
'Selfish! Selfish!' she was thinking of herself. 'To be needed by this great man! And to be only concerned with my material self!' She was horribly ashamed. 'How he needs me! And I deny him! I deny him ! Oh, how did I dare ?'
She listened, and her heart grew swollen and soft within her as she heard what was unmistakably a sob. 'Oh Prof-' she could not bear it; he was alone, weeping in his need for her—'Oh, Meph, Meph,' she started up, and toward the door. She would go to him, give herself to him—fully.