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"Were you going to change into your pyjaht theht was for Gurney?"

"Of course it was"

"And your razors and your toothbrush, too Oh, John, what's the good of lying? You forgot that I helped Alice Bartruet that Billy knows"

"Do I? I shan't forget your going back onme," he said

And for the first time she realised how alone he was; how horribly alone He had nobody but her

"Who have I betrayed you to?"

"To Sutton To McClane To everybody you talked to"

"No No"

"Yes And you betrayed hts That's worse People don't always mean what they say It's what they think"

"What was I to think?"

"Why, that all the das you said about "

"You've betrayed s you didn't say"

"Why should I have betrayed you?"

"You knohy When a woman betrays a man it's always for one reason"

He threw his head back to strike at her with his eyes, hard and keen, dark blue like the blade of a new knife"Because he hasn't given her what she wants"

"Oh, what I want--I thought we'd settled that long ago"

"You've never settled it It isn't in you to settle it"

"I can't talk to you about that You're too horrible But I didn't betray you"

"You listened to people who betrayed me If you cared for me in any decent way you'd have stood by h thick and thin I've lied your lies There isn't one of your lies I haven't backed I've done everything I could think of to keep people froo and tell Sutton that I've bolted That I'ot away everybody'd have known As it is, only Billy and I know; and he's safe"

"You insist that I was trying to get away? I own I thought of it But one doesn't do everything one thinks of No Don't iium It's you I' I told you ould happen if you let me see you wanted me"