The Age of Innocence



He gave a reckless shrug. \"It's too late to do anything else.\"

\"You say that because it's the easiest thing to say at this moment—not because it's true. In reality it's too late to do anything but what we'd both decided on.\"

\"Ah, I don't understand you!\"

She forced a pitiful smile that pinched her face instead of smoothing it. \"You don't understand because you haven't yet guessed how you've changed things for me: oh,


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He gave a reckless shrug. \"It's too late to do anything else.\"

\"You say that because it's the easiest thing to say at this moment—not because it's true. In reality it's too late to do anything but what we'd both decided on.\"

\"Ah, I don't understand you!\"

She forced a pitiful smile that pinched her face instead of smoothing it. \"You don't understand because you haven't yet guessed how you've changed things for me: oh,


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