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" I say, I wish you'd leave this place and come away and live with oing to give ether There are all sorts of jolly things we could do together Would you like to live with me, Charlotte, on my farm?"

"Yes"

"I mean--live with me without that"

"Yes; without that"

"It isn't that I don't care for you It's because I care so awfully, so , and it's the only way People don't know that They don't knohat they're destroying with their blind rushing together All the delicate, exquisite sensations Charlotte, I can get all the ecstasy I want by just sitting here and looking at you, hearing your voice, touching you--like this" His finger-tips brushed the bare skin of her aro Everything would go

" But our way--nothing could end it"

"I can see one thing that would end it If you found somebody you really cared about"

"Oh that--You mean if I--It wouldn't happen, and if it did, what difference would it make?"

"You mean you'd come back?"

"I one to her John, I don't think I could bear it"

"You wouldn't have to bear it long It wouldn't last"