CHAPTER DC 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE STRAIHIT SIMPLICITY OF EVE 
     
    
   
   
    
     R the next three weeks Eric Mar- 
     
     FOshall seemed to himself to be living 
     
     two lives, as distinct from each 
     
     other as if he possessed a double personal- 
     
     ity. In one, he taught the Lindsay dis- 
     
     trict school diligently and painstakingly; 
     
     solved problems; argued on theology with 
     
     Robert Williamson; called at the homes 
     
     of his pupils and took tea in state with 
     
     their parents; went to a rustic dance or 
     
     two and played havoc, all unwittingly, 
     
     with the hearts of the Lindsay maidens. 
     
     But this life was as a dream of worka- 
     
     day. He only lived in the other, which 
     
     was spent in an old orchard, grassy and 
     
     overgrown, where the minutes seemed to 
     
     lag for sheer love of the spot and the June 
     
     Winds made Wild harping in the 01d 
     
     spruces. 
     
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