He waited again an instant. "Then you swear to it?"

"To 'it'? To what?"

"Why that you do 'like' me. Since it's all for that, you know, that I'm

letting you do--well, God knows what with me."

She gave at this, with a stare, a disheartened gesture--the sense of

which she immediately further expressed. "If you don't believe in me

then, after all, hadn't you better break off before you've gone

further?"

"Break off with you?"

"Break off with Milly. You might go now," she said, "and I'll stay and

explain to her why it is."

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