The Age of Innocence



\"Yes.\"

\"It was May who sent you to fetch me, then? How kind of her!\"

He made no answer for a moment; then he said explosively: \"Your husband's secretary came to see me the day after we met in Boston.\"

In his brief letter to her he had made no allusion to M. Riviere's visit, and his intention had been to bury the incident in his bosom. But her reminder that they were in his wife's carriage provoked him to an impulse of


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\"Yes.\"

\"It was May who sent you to fetch me, then? How kind of her!\"

He made no answer for a moment; then he said explosively: \"Your husband's secretary came to see me the day after we met in Boston.\"

In his brief letter to her he had made no allusion to M. Riviere's visit, and his intention had been to bury the incident in his bosom. But her reminder that they were in his wife's carriage provoked him to an impulse of


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