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 woman he doesn’t know. At least you’ve been spared that, Kitty.

(bitterly) : Thank you. That gives me enormous consolation. Are you by any chance pitying her?

I can so picture their meeting, and his eyes, when he sees and then her face. It’s cruel, Kitty. Cruel to him, too. It’s going to rob him even of his dreams his last dream.

(stonily) : And me?



Chris’s tact and politeness those silences  all this blankness between us? And Chris a stranger, with the body I knew and a mind I’ve never known. (With a sudden ray of hope.) Jenny if it’s going to be as you say  that when he sees her he’ll be  revolted  then do you think she’ll come?

She’ll come.

Will she dare to face him knowing that? I shouldn’t.