2/8 But any deficiency of this kind was no fault in him: he wasn't obliged to have an inferior cleverness--to have second-rate resources and virtues. It had been as if he almost really believed she had simply cried for fatigue, and he accordingly put in some kind confused plea--"You ought really to take something: won't you have something or other _somewhere_ ?" to which she had made no response but a headshake of a sharpness that settled it. "Why shan't we all the more keep meeting ?" "I mean meeting this way--only this way. At my place there--_that_ I've nothing to do with, and I hope of course you'll turn up, with your correspondence, when it suits you. Whether I stay or not, I mean; for I shall probably not stay." "You're going somewhere else ?" he put it with positive anxiety. |