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From: Bockhorn <inc...@wa...> - 2009-08-21 16:35:17
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E you've seen me. You needn't have, you know, if you didn't want to. You could have stayed in the doll's house; and there, I suppose, you think I should never have found you--or _it_ again?" He was silent a moment, leaning on the chair opposite, watching her with knitted forehead, while her apprehension fluttered for what he should do next. He had done away with all the amenities of meeting and attacked his point with a directness that took her breath. "You know what I've come for," he said, "but now I'm here, now that I see you, I wonder if there's something I haven't reckoned on." He looked at her earnestly. "If you think I've taken advantage of you--if you say so--I'll go away, and give you a chance to think it over." It would have been so easy to have nodded him out, but instead she half put out her hand toward him. "No; stay." He gave her a quick look--surprise and approbation at her courage. He dropped into a chair. "Then tell me about it." Flora's heart we |