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98 to have second-rate resources and virtues. It had been as if he almost really believed she had simply cried for fatigue, and he had accordingly put in some kind, confused plea—'You ought really to take something: won't you have something or other somewhere?'—to which she had made no response but a headshake of a sharpness that settled it. 'Why shan't we all the more keep meeting?'

'I mean meeting this way—only this way. At my place there—that I've nothing to do with, and I hope of course you'll turn up, with your correspondence, when it suits you. Whether I stay or not, I mean; for I shall probably not stay.'

'You're going somewhere else?'—he put it with positive anxiety.

'Yes; ever so far away—to the other end of London. There are all sorts of reasons I can't tell you; and it's practically settled. It's better for me, much; and I've only kept on at Cocker's for you.'

'For me?'

Making out in the dusk that he fairly blushed,