[The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Portrait of a Lady CHAPTER XIV 18/24
"I should like very much to see you at home." "You must come to Lockleigh again," said Miss Molyneux, very sweetly, to Isabel, ignoring this remark of Isabel's friend.
Isabel looked into her quiet eyes a moment, and for that moment seemed to see in their grey depths the reflexion of everything she had rejected in rejecting Lord Warburton--the peace, the kindness, the honour, the possessions, a deep security and a great exclusion.
She kissed Miss Molyneux and then she said: "I'm afraid I can never come again." "Never again ?" "I'm afraid I'm going away." "Oh, I'm so very sorry," said Miss Molyneux.
"I think that's so very wrong of you." Lord Warburton watched this little passage; then he turned away and stared at a picture.
Ralph, leaning against the rail before the picture with his hands in his pockets, had for the moment been watching him. "I should like to see you at home," said Henrietta, whom Lord Warburton found beside him.
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