rope. So if she does send for you," the girl re
peated, " you must know where you are."

"That I always know. It's where you are that
concerns me."

"Well," said Kate after an instant, " her idea of
that is what you ll have from her." He gave her
a long look, and whatever else people who wouldn't
let her alone might have wished, for her advance
ment, his long looks were the thing in the world
she could never have enough of. What she felt was
that, whatever might happen, she must keep them,
must make them most completely her possession;
and it was already strange enough that she reasoned,
or at all events began to act, as if she might work
them in with other and alien things, privately cher
ish them, and yet, as regards the rigour of it, pay
no price. She looked it well in the face, she took
it intensely home, that they were lovers; she re
joiced to herself and, frankly, to him, in their wear
ing of the name; but, distinguished creature that,
in her way, she was, she took a view of this charac
ter that scarce squared with the conventional. The
character itself she insisted on as their right, taking
that so for granted that it didn't seem even bold;
but Densher, though he agreed with her, found
himself moved to wonder at her simplifications, her
values. Life might prove difficult was evidently
going to; but meanwhile they had each other, and
that was everything. This was her reasoning, but
meanwhile, for him, each other was what they didn't

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