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The Firing Line

CHAPTER XVIII
12/27

Then, what does it mean, the saying--'souls lost through love'?
Does it mean what we have done ?--because I am married?
Would people think our souls lost--if they knew ?" "No, you blessed child!" "Well, how can--" "It's a lie anyway," he said.

"Nothing is lost through love.

It is something very different they mean." "Yes," she said calmly, "something quite inconceivable, like 'Faust' and 'The Scarlet Letter,' ...

I _thought_ that was what they meant!" Brooding over him, silent, pensive, clear eyes fearlessly meeting his, she drifted into guiltless retrospection.
"After all," she said, "except for letting everybody know that we belong to each other this is practically like marriage.

Look at that honeymoon up there, Garry....


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