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 bleeds for you and Kitty. It’s worse for Kitty.



She’s his wife.



I thought you might care to have me by you in your hour of trouble. I should like to feel that I could give you comfort spiritual comfort. You know how attached I am to you. We don’t see each other very often any more but I assure you, Jenny, that makes no difference. I still feel the same towards you.

(her mind away from him) : Even though I’m thirty-five?



He’d thought of me as a girl, with my hair just up and my frocks just down and he saw me as a woman. I don’t think I’m vain, but that stare that he gave me the look that came into his eyes





It’s a thing that comes to us all. We’re none of us as young as we were. I’ve a few grey hairs myself. I’m only forty but I’ve noticed lately a tendency to  (with an eye to his figure) well, crudely,