I made some sort of desperate protest.

"No, if I didn't know you so well I believe I should have given in long

ago. I'm not thinking of you alone, but of myself, too. I'm afraid I

shouldn't be happy, that I should begin to think--and then I couldn't

stop. The plain truth, as I've told you over and over again, is that I'm

not big enough." She continued smiling at me, a smile on which I could

not bear to look. "I was wrong not to have gone away," I heard her say.

"I will go away."

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