[Septimus by William J. Locke]@TWC D-Link bookSeptimus CHAPTER XV 19/26
Don't you see how horrible the idea is to me? I must pay you back the money--and of course not come on you for any more. You've done too much for me already.
It sometimes stuns me to think of it. It was only because I was in hell and mad--and grasped at the hand you held out to me.
I suppose I've done you the biggest wrong a woman can do a man. Now I've come to my senses, I shudder at what I've done." "Why? Why ?" said Septimus, growing miserably unhappy. "How can you ever marry, unless we go through the vulgarity of a collusive divorce ?" "My dear girl," said he, "what woman would ever marry a preposterous lunatic like me ?" "There's not a woman living who ought not to have gone down on her bended knees if she had married you." "I should never have married," said he, laying his hand for a moment reassuringly on hers. "Who knows ?" She gave a slight laugh.
"Zora is only a woman like the rest of us." "Why talk of Zora ?" he said quickly.
"What has she to do with it ?" "Everything.
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