'Neil! Neil!'
She ran at full speed, her heart was beating, as it was ready to jump out of her chest. She had never run so fast, and faster, and faster!
'Ne-e-e-e-il!' She screamed, and her heart was in her mouth.
Her leg got in some hole, and the girl fell on the road with full force.
Raised up slightly, Candy looked at the clouds of dust, where the red car disappeared.
'He did not even turn around... did not even look at me...' The girl tried to wipe her face, her hands trembled.
'Candy!' She heard a voice very close, as in a fog. That was Terry.
Miss White looked up, and the young man saw that her eyes were full of despair.
'Terry, he will not forgive me,' she whispered. 'He will never forgive me!'
Granchester wanted to say something, but he did not. For some reason, the hopelessness in her voice paralyzed him.
Candy stood up and walked back slowly. Terry walked alongside, not daring to touch her.
'He will not forgive me, he will not forgive me...' the girl whispered.
They approached the place, where this scene had happened, and Candy knelt to raise the flowers that Neil had thrown.
Roses, so beautiful and bright, he had been going to meet her...
Suddenly she started understand, what had happened, and that she would not see her beloved anymore, and that like that, just in a moment, everything was over, broken...
Candy hugged the bouquet, like a living creature, and bitterly sobbed.
Terrus was looking at her and keeping silent. On the one hand, he did not understand why Candy was so sorrow for that weasel, but the way she cried confounded him, and he could not find a word of consolation and could not distract her anyway.
'Forgive me,' he said softly.
Granchester also knelt down and slightly put his arm around the girl's shoulders. Candy raised her tear-stained face to him.
'Terry, Terry, I was so happy! What should I do?... What have I done? Lord... Really, I'll never see him again, Terry...' These words tore his heart, she complained to him as to a close person, complained that she cannot be with Legan. What the madness!
He embraced Candy, but in the movement there was no more passion, there was only consolation and compassion, and the girl, shaking with sobs, hid on his chest.
He could not see her so unhappy. He loves her too much...
'Candy, do not cry,' he said hollowly. 'It's not your fault, it's only mine. We'll go to him now, and I'll talk to him. Everything will be fine.'
'Really?' The hope that sounded in her voice and those radiant, tear-stained eyes that seemed to glow with some inner light. For one her little smile, he was ready to do anything.
'Well, of course. Get up,' Terry got up and helped Candy to stand up, shaking out her dress, like a child.
'And smile.'
... If nine circles of hell did exist, Terrus Granchester passed them all.
For those short forty minutes that they spend on the way to the Legan's house in Chicago, Candy repeated about twenty times 'He will not forgive me. Never!' Every time she said those words with more and more tragic intonations, several times begged to turn the car back, because "it's useless", then she asked to go faster, although he already squeezed all the speed out of the car.
But the worst part was that between these exclamations the beloved girl began to talk about how that Neil was wonderful and how she loved him, despite all the protests of the interlocutor.
When they drove up to the Legan's house, Terry even wanted to reconcile them as soon as possible, because he could not bear to hear the praises for Legan from Miss Freckle's mouth.
The butler's phrase 'Mr. Daniel left and did not deign to say where' send Candy into despair.
It seemed that all the tears had already been spent earlier, but the flood that struck the poor actor after that phrase almost crushed him.
'I... do not know where he is... He... does not want to see me...' she sobbed, sitting on a bench in a small park.
'Candy! Well, get up! Think about where he could go?!' his nerves were shot, and Terrus almost shouted.
With an effort of will, the girl restrained a new stream of tears and started to think. And then, her face lit up with a guess.
'Well, of course! Lakewood! He went to Lakewood!'
They ran to the car, and Terry pressed the gas.