The Age of Innocence

gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.\"

Her tone and her look still enveloped her in a soft inaccessibility, and Archer groaned out again: \"I don't understand you!\"

\"Yet you understand May!\"

He reddened under the retort, but kept his eyes on her. \"May is ready to give me up.\"

\"What! Three days after you've entreated her on your knees to hasten your marriage?\"


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gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.\"

Her tone and her look still enveloped her in a soft inaccessibility, and Archer groaned out again: \"I don't understand you!\"

\"Yet you understand May!\"

He reddened under the retort, but kept his eyes on her. \"May is ready to give me up.\"

\"What! Three days after you've entreated her on your knees to hasten your marriage?\"


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