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The Pool in the Desert

CHAPTER 2
20/21

Then I gathered that if he had taken the post she would have felt compelled, compelled by all she had done for him, to share its honours with him; and this, ever since at her bidding he had begun to gather such things up, was precisely what she had lost all inclination to do.
We were married the following October.

We had a big, gorgeous official wedding, which we both enjoyed enormously.

I took furlough, and we went home, but we found London very expensive and the country very slow; and with my K.C.S.I.

came the offer of the Membership, so we went back to Simla for three perfectly unnecessary years, which we now look back upon with pleasure and regret.

I fear that we, no more than Ingersoll Armour, were quite whole-hearted Bohemians; but I don't know that we really ever pretended to be.
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