The Age of Innocence



\"I mean: how shall I explain? I—it's always so. EACH TIME YOU HAPPEN TO ME ALL OVER AGAIN.\"

\"Oh, yes: I know! I know!\"

\"Does it—do I too: to you?\" he insisted.

She nodded, looking out of the window.

\"Ellen—Ellen—Ellen!\"

She made no answer, and he sat in silence, watching her profile grow indistinct against the snow-streaked dusk beyond the window. What had she been doing in all those four long months, he wondered? How little they knew of each other,


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\"I mean: how shall I explain? I—it's always so. EACH TIME YOU HAPPEN TO ME ALL OVER AGAIN.\"

\"Oh, yes: I know! I know!\"

\"Does it—do I too: to you?\" he insisted.

She nodded, looking out of the window.

\"Ellen—Ellen—Ellen!\"

She made no answer, and he sat in silence, watching her profile grow indistinct against the snow-streaked dusk beyond the window. What had she been doing in all those four long months, he wondered? How little they knew of each other,


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