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 and now? At the worst—now—one. But if—if I did marry Nang and take her to England, there might be others."

Bradley groaned. "It is all very difficult. The consequences of wrong always are. I don't see my way. You must let me think a bit; perhaps to-morrow I'll see what's best, least bad!" He groaned again, but he did not tell Gregory that it had just occurred to him that legal marriage without Wu's consent might prove impossible. Wu's consent would never be had, he thought. They solve such problems differently in China. They cut them.