The Age of Innocence

and she might vanish again before he could overtake her.

\"I? Oh, I'm here on business too,\" she answered, turning her head toward him so that they were face to face. The words hardly reached him: he was aware only of her voice, and of the startling fact that not an echo of it had remained in his memory. He had not even remembered that it was low-pitched, with a faint roughness on the consonants.

\"You do your hair differently,


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and she might vanish again before he could overtake her.

\"I? Oh, I'm here on business too,\" she answered, turning her head toward him so that they were face to face. The words hardly reached him: he was aware only of her voice, and of the startling fact that not an echo of it had remained in his memory. He had not even remembered that it was low-pitched, with a faint roughness on the consonants.

\"You do your hair differently,


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