[In the Cage by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookIn the Cage CHAPTER XVII 7/8
He sat still, and she added: "I won't give you up.
Good-bye." "Good-bye ?"--he appealed, but without moving. "I don't quite see my way, but I won't give you up," she repeated. "There.
Good-bye." It brought him with a jerk to his feet, tossing away his cigarette.
His poor face was flushed.
"See here--see here!" "No, I won't; but I must leave you now," she went on as if not hearing him. "See here--see here!" He tried, from the bench, to take her hand again. But that definitely settled it for her: this would, after all, be as bad as his asking her to supper.
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