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Septimus

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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