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Left alone in her untidy room after Graham's abrupt departure, Anna

Klein was dazed She stood where he left her, staring ahead What had

happened er cared about

her, and, if that was true, she did not care to live

It never occurred to her that he had done rather a fine thing, or that

he had protected her against herself She felt no particular shame, save

the shaave a

girl valuable gifts or enerally a quid pro quo If the

girl was unwilling, she did not accept such gifts If the , he did not irls either

wanted to marry them or desired some other relationship with thean, automatically

to unbutton her thin white blouse But with the sound of the engine of

his car below she ran to theShe leaned out, elbows on the sill,

and watched hio, without a look up at her

So that was the end of that!

Then, all at once, she was fiercely angry He had got her into this

scrape, and now he had left her He had pretended to love her, and all

the time he had ht reject her He had been playing with her She had lost her home

because of him, had been beaten almost insensible, had been ill for