The Age of Innocence

the figure in the summer-house did not move.

He turned and walked up the hill.


\"I'm sorry you didn't find Ellen—I should have liked to see her again,\" May said as they drove home through the dusk. \"But perhaps she wouldn't have cared—she seems so changed.\"

\"Changed?\" echoed her husband in a colourless voice, his eyes fixed on the ponies' twitching ears.

\"So indifferent to her friends, I mean; giving up New York and her house,


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the figure in the summer-house did not move.

He turned and walked up the hill.


\"I'm sorry you didn't find Ellen—I should have liked to see her again,\" May said as they drove home through the dusk. \"But perhaps she wouldn't have cared—she seems so changed.\"

\"Changed?\" echoed her husband in a colourless voice, his eyes fixed on the ponies' twitching ears.

\"So indifferent to her friends, I mean; giving up New York and her house,


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