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astonished her had it been audible: You my dear at any rate are a sincere

woain after givingone himself, "I call a wo remotely in form what she really would like to say,

what she really thinks ought to be said if it were not for the necessity

to spare the stupid sensitiveness of ment, embraces the whole truth, which their tact, their

mistrust ofin its

entirety And their tact is unerring We could not stand wo

the truth We could not bear it It would cause infiniteabout most awful disturbances in this rather mediocre, but still

idealistic fool's paradise in which each of us lives his own little

life--the unit in the great sueneralization does not apply exactly to Mrs Fyne's

outburst of sincerity in a aged That's why, may be, she ventured so far For a

woman she chose to be as open as the day with me There was not only the

forht in what she said She

believed she could risk it She had reasoned so a certain aacity"