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you----"

She half rose, sank back into her seat, her startled eyes

his

"I--don't knohat you mean"

"Yes--you know"

Flushed, voices unsteady, they no longer recognised themselves

"You have never seen me but once," she said "You cannot

believe----"

"I have not known a ht her breath "It is your business worries that torment

you----"

"It is desire to be near you"

"I don't think you had better say such a thing----"

"I know I had better not But it is said, and it is true I' to explain it to you or to myself It's just true There

has not been one moment, since I saw you, which has been free from

memory of you----"

"Please----"

"I scarcely knohat I a my head nohich isn't like me!" He choked

and stood up; she could not move; every nerve in her had beco that mind and body remained

fettered