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[Gennarelli A. <car...@ax...>]

G me was to be only an incident in your career; that you didn't love me
sufficiently to bend your pride or vary your programme a jot. [_He gets
to his feet, startled, dumbfoundered. He attempts to speak, but she
checks him._] H'sh! H'sh! I'm scolding you; but, for your sake, I
wouldn't have it otherwise. Now that I'm sane and cool, I wouldn't have
it otherwise. PHILIP. [_Struggling for words--thickly._]
Ottoline--Ottoline--[_his voice dying away_] I----! OTTOLINE. [_Taking
his hands in hers._] Good-bye. Don't come downstairs with me. Let me
leave you sitting at your table, at work--at work on that incomplete
chapter. We shall tumble up against one another, I dare say, at odd
times, but this is the last we shall see of each other _dans
l'intimite_; and I want