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"Youher body on the pool's ri interlocked above the water "Listen," she said in a low, distinct voice: "What you lose is no other ain! If I wars so--it is because of you You inspire it in irl you first met at the station I tell you that I don't know myself now--that I have not known , ability to appreciate, to expressthe commonplaces, subtleties of intercourse--all, maybe, were latent in o, then, lacking impulse and incentive, the new facility, the new sensitive alertness, the unconscious self-confidence, all will smoulder and die out in me … I know it; I realise that it was due to you--part of me that I should never have known, of which I should have renorant, had it not blossomed suddenly, stimulated by you alone"

Slowly the clouded seriousness of her blue eyes cleared, and the se; you recommit me to my commonplace self; you restore me to my tinsel career, practically a dolt Shairl so! … But it's just as well Blunted perceptions, according to our needs, you know; and so life is te … A pleasantly estion for a day like this, is it not? … Shall we take a farewell plunge, and dress? You knoe say good-bye to-o from here?"

"To Lenox; the Clays for another teeks or so; after that, to Oyster Bay … Mr Quarrier opens his house on Sedge Point," she added demurely, "but I don't think he expects to invite you to 'The Sedges'"

"How long do you stay there?" asked Siward irritably

"Until we go to town in December"

"What will you find to do all that time in Oyster Bay?" he asked more irritably

"What a premature question! The yacht is there Besides, there's the usual neighbourhood hunting, with the usual packs and inevitable set; the usual steeple-chasing; the usual exchange of social a; the usual,certainty … And what are you to do?"