But Drusie never spoke one single word the whole way home.  To think that Hal--her own twin--from whom, until a short three months ago, she had been almost inseparable, should arrange to spend the whole of his birthday away from home caused her bitter grief.  It was not even that he had forgotten the fact of their birthdays.  She knew quite well he remembered, from the momentary hesitation he had shown.  No; he had deliberately chosen to desert her, and Drusie felt as if she should never get over it.