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"I didn't expect you to give me much."
"I don't understand then why you came."
"I came because I wanted to see you once more even just as you are."
"I appreciate that; but if you had waited a while, sooner or later
we should have been sure to meet, and our meeting would have been
pleasanter for each of us than this."
"Waited till after you're married? That's just what I didn't want to
do.
You'll be different then."
"Not very. I shall still be a great friend of yours. You'll see."
"That will make it all the worse," said Mr. Goodwood grimly.
"Ah, you're unaccommodating! I can't promise to dislike you in order
to help you to resign yourself."
"I shouldn't care if you did!"
Isabel got up with a movement of repressed impatience and walked
to the window, where she remained a moment looking out. When she
turned round her visitor was still motionless in his place. She came
toward him again and stopped, resting her hand on the back of the
chair she had just quitted. "Do you mean you came simply to look at
me? That's better for you perhaps than for me."
"I wished to hear the sound of your voice," he said.
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