The Age of Innocence

we've met—it may be another hundred before we meet again.\"

She still wavered, her anxious eyes on his face. \"Why didn't you come down to the beach to fetch me, the day I was at Granny's?\" she asked.

\"Because you didn't look round—because you didn't know I was there. I swore I wouldn't unless you looked round.\" He laughed as the childishness of the confession struck him.

\"But I didn't look round on purpose.\"

\"On purpose?\"


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we've met—it may be another hundred before we meet again.\"

She still wavered, her anxious eyes on his face. \"Why didn't you come down to the beach to fetch me, the day I was at Granny's?\" she asked.

\"Because you didn't look round—because you didn't know I was there. I swore I wouldn't unless you looked round.\" He laughed as the childishness of the confession struck him.

\"But I didn't look round on purpose.\"

\"On purpose?\"


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