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There was a long silence, whilst his blue eyes, strangely

impersonal, looked into her eyes to seek an answer to the truth

He was looking for the truth out of her And she, as if

hypnotized, th

"Yes, I aed, beca almost at her, for the truth of her

Steady and intent and eternal they were, as if they would never

change They see herself created, will-less, lapsing into him, into a

common ith him

"You want me?" she said

A pallor came over his face

"Yes," he said

Still there was no response and silence

"No," she said, not of herself "No, I don't know"

He felt the tension breaking up in him, his fists slackened,

he was unable to ue collapse For the moment she had become unreal to

him Then he saw her come to him, curiously direct and as if

without movement, in a sudden flow She put her hand to his

coat