Chapter 3
The next afternoon Carl and Alexandra were walking across the
fields from Mrs. Hiller's. Alexandra had left Lincoln after
midnight, and Carl had met her at the Hanover station early in the
morning. After they reached home, Alexandra had gone over to Mrs.
Hiller's to leave a little present she had bought for her in the
city. They stayed at the old lady's door but a moment, and then
came out to spend the rest of the afternoon in the sunny
fields.
Alexandra had taken off her black traveling suit and put on a
white dress; partly because she saw that her black clothes made
Carl uncomfortable and partly because she felt oppressed by them
herself. They seemed a little like the prison where she had worn
them yesterday, and to be out of place in the open fields. Carl had
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