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does she know we meet like this what

Aunt M knows my dear is quite prodigious

no doubt she thinks me some sort of

scoundrel not at all she likes you or it

best not good enough for you oh not good

enough shall we say for her for

Lancaster gate ah I see the force of her

argument she didn't as it were pluck me

from the bosom of my awful family for

nothing oh so I'm nothing Am I by the

standards of Lancaster gate not mine and

are they really so awful your family

unspeakable Aunt m is the only way by

which a family such as mine can survive

the fact is a Perpetual sound in my ears

it makes me ask myself sometimes if I

have any right to personal happiness in

fact any right to anything but to be as

rich and smart and Shining as I can be

let us hope with luck you might have

happiness as well oh darling I adore you

will you settle it by our being married

straight away before I go abroad

tomorrow if you like no no let's wait

shall we at least till you've seen Aunt

M do you call that adoring me yes I do

for somebody of such high spirit I must

say you're extremely prudent ah then

we're both hideously intelligent you and

I but there's fun in it too indeed there

is I think our relationship is beautiful

it's not in the least bit vulgar though

how you must sometimes be tempted to

Chuck me no no that would be vulgar

though of course I do see the danger

that I may one day be persuaded to do

something base and what could be more

base than sacrificing me a don't cry out

to your hurt my boy I shall sacrifice

nobody and nothing I want and shall try

for everything you see and once more the

key to your everything is Aunt mud just

see her talk to her take her into your

confidence and if she likes you there's

no knowing what she may do for us after

all it was never I who sought her she

just came and bore me away in her

wonderful gilded claws you speak of her

as though she were some Superior kind of

vulture or rather I think an eagle a

golden eagle goodness what she must

think of you oh she does too much well

that's the

trouble oh dear what in the world can I

do to square her just see her talk to

her

charm her you can grovel to her you mean

oh call it what you like I make no such

over fine distinctions

myself ah Mr

D my niece Kate tell me you wish to see

me do down thank you madam she told me

also that you're shortly going to

America for your uh newspaper I forget

its name but that's in material is that

right quite right Madam I leave at the

end of the week Mr denure let us pay

each other the compliment of of being

quite honest I can perfectly guess the

object of your visit can I not yes Madam

I'm quite sure you can my niece is the

finest creature in the world Mr denta

but I'm sure you flatter yourself by

thinking you already know that indeed I

do I don't say so just because she's my

niece that's nothing to me I might have

50 nieces but I wouldn't have brought

one of them to this house unless she was

to my taste Kate unluckily for you Mr

Dench was all I could desire of course

yes I've been saving her up and letting

her as one might say appreciate and now

that she's beginning to show such an

admirable return for my investment you

must realize of course I want nothing

less than the best world indeed and I

quite see that your idea of the best is

not exactly me well oh but I think you

do yourself something of an injustice Mr

denure you strike me as being quite a

personable young man in your way thank

you madam but you see I have particular

reasons for wanting to see Kate rise

High yes I want to see her high up and

in the sun where she should be in fact

you'd like her to marry into the piage

is that right I see no reason why she

should not certainly at that rate I can

quite understand how little I fit into

your picture thank you for not being

more rough with me why in the world

should I be rough Mr

denture you're going to America you say

to New York but only for a short while

then remind me to give you some letters

of introduction I have many good friends

in New York and when you turn perhaps

you'd care to come and have dinner

sometime

goodbye but if she consents to

eventually coming to the house isn't

that really everything oh certainly yet

I think she calculates that I should be

less of a complication if I'm allowed to

see you reasonably often it's my lack of

money which gives her such confidence

and I think she gives me credit for

wanting to better my state a little

before putting the pistol to your head

which gives her time for her plans for

you to mature if she doesn't spoil them

by treating me badly in the meantime

besides I'm sure she doesn't want to she

liked me as I did her but she'll like me

even better if circumstances treat me

badly though you may not like me as much

I hereby engage myself to you forever

and ever Kate D and I call to God as my

witness that I pledge you Every Spark of

my faith every drop of my

life dearest Kate you know I do the same

for you these words these promises will

be our secret till you come

back and in the meantime if your aunt

mud asks you on your honor where we are

as one might say no she won't I think

not while you're away she'll be content

to leave it but there'll be our letters

many many I hope well then well I shall

leave mine on the whole table I shall

post them myself then had I better send

mine to your sister I'd rather not oh

men are so foolish about these things if

I post my own letters to you my love it

won't just be for the vulgar reason of

hiding them but because to post them

will be a a special pleasure but send

yours directly by all means I should be

proud to receive them even though it

means bringing the Inquisition on your

head I am not afraid if she asks me

straight I know what I shall say that I

love you as I shall never in my life

love anyone else and that she can make

What She Likes of

it he wants us particularly to join him

one weekend at matcham he leaves it to

us to let him know when it would be

convenient H Lord mark my love your name

last week at lady Roberts if you

remember of course I remember ant he's a

very Charming Man yes is he not well

charming and

intelligent which reminds me my dear

have you corresponded at all with that

quite Pleasant young man who called here

once I'm afraid I don't recall his name

Mr

denture why do you ask oh merely that I

promised to give him an address an old

school fellow of mine in New York a

quite delightful woman I uh think he

comes home soon I'm not really sure oh

well and Cas but give me the name

aunt and if I should happen to be

writing who's that it's only me Su oh

come

in I asked them to save you the trouble

of dressing to send something up here to

your room oh thank you but you really

need not have bothered I'm quite all

right well I was a brute to suggest that

we move on we should have stayed the

night in Ko do I bully you dreadfully oh

yes of course dreadfully I sometimes

feel I bullied you into coming to Europe

in the first place because well to

travel like this with you is such a

wonderful opportunity for me and isn't

the opportunity as wonderful for me yes

but for you it's always there do you

think so and why should it not be you're

young you have no domestic comp

appliations no material restraints if

one may be permitted to descend to the

merely vulgar well my dear have you no I

suppose not well

then Susan what was it Dr Finch told you

before we sailed when you saw Malone

Nothing On My Honor That Couldn't as

well have been said in front of you my

love why are you feeling unwell no no

particular trouble no pain of any sort

no none do you

swear Susan I want to go to London now

straight away not go on to Venice as we

planned well my love if that's what

you'd like that's what we do but

Millie why oh I want above everything

else to see London you know bad well

then I sometimes feel that I want to

have seen everything to have known

everything experienced everything if

only one had the time and why should you

not have the time my love so will you

write tomor louder what well I'll do so

tonight and you my love may write to

that young man if you will what young

man you know perfectly well of whom I

speak Mr denture oh yes of course Mr

denture well he particularly asked if

you remember that you should look him up

as he called it if you came to London

but how can I look him up if he's still

in New York and how does one know that

he's still in New York but Millie my

love are you sure it's wise to travel

when you're so tired oh but I'm not

really tired not in that sense well it's

only

that oh but would you mind you don't

think me merely tiresome and capricious

no oh you're good you're wonderful oh

I'm wonderful all right well then I'll

ask them to prepare our bill for the

morning gu J hardly believe it let me

introduce the companion of my travels

Miss Millie the how do you do man it was

most kind of you to take pity on us like

this oh it's so many years since I was

last in London while Familia it's a

whole new experience and a very

wonderful one I can assure you then we

must see that you make the most of it my

dear first you shall meet my niece Kate

my

love Excuse me yes

a this is Miss the from America my niece

Kate Croy how do you do how do you do

and my dear friend Susie uh Mrs

Stringham how do you do now I put her in

your charge my dear see to it that she

meets everyone she wishes in short do

what you will with her certainly

a do you already know many people here

in London nobody oh well almost nobody

what a striking girl is she not she has

a certain delicacy yes indeed at home we

reckon her of great Beauty in fact quite

a princess in a manner of speaking do

you mean she has oh everything in a

material sense everything that is except

a family and in addition she has is the

sweetest gentlest nature of any creature

living your niece too is very handsome

extremely handsome yes I flatter myself

my girl need yield to nobody on that

score but come you must meet my friends

now you must let me take you around and

introduce you to the more interesting

people or better still you stay here and

let me bring them to you oh miss Cy not

for the moment please well why not well

don't you see it's enough of me just to

be standing here as I am in London just

see so much it's wonderful well if you

find this wonderful then perhaps you'd

let me show you more of London while

you're here oh but could you really

spare the time your life must be so full

ah Lord Mark I'd like you to meet Miss

Millie theel from America how do you do

how do you do I believe I'm to be placed

next to you at dinner I'm flattered I

had no idea Mrs louder thought so well

of me I shall leave her with you for the

moment look after her well

assuredly you do yourself an injustice

Lord Mark I I'm sure you're quite the

best thing Mrs louder has well if ever I

was I'm so no longer you're the best now

I well in what way am I anything at all

to do with Mrs louder well that's the

trouble we both feel Mrs Stringham and I

greatly in her debt she's shown such

tremendous kindness yet what have we to

give her in return Mrs Stringham at

least has you to give to Mrs louder or

I'm rather a poor present besides I

don't feel yet as though I'd quite been

given well at least you've been shown

and with you just to be seen is to be

jumped at immediately you see and you

need have no sense of obligation I'm

sure you'll find that nobody here does

anything for nothing Mrs louder will as

it were get her money back don't you

worry well we shall certainly do

everything we can to repay her that goes

without saying but I take her to be an

idealist Mrs louder an idealist well if

not Mrs louder then certainly Miss Croy

what is she to gain by her kindness and

her welcome to begin with your

acquaintance oh but what my acquaintance

to her she can care for me only by being

sorry for me then I'm afraid she's left

me far behind I'm not sorry for you at

all no I don't see you as an object of

pity miss the far from it ah but perhaps

Miss Croy has more perception than the

rest of you she understands she's

beautiful beautiful in face do you mean

or of character well her outward beauty

is there for anyone to see and as to her

character I only met her a moment moment

ago you must know her a great deal

better than I ah but you see I failed

with her that's the trouble she doesn't

care for me though I can hardly hold

that to her discredit no there's some

quality in her that eludes me I can't

make her out though I should dearly like

to but it seems to me that on the

contrary you here all of you know each

other too well so far as you really know

anything so with all the pains one takes

to run about the world one ends knowing

nothing is that your opinion of us

you're familiar with everything but

you're conscious really of nothing

you're Blas what I mean is you've no

imagination well now shall I lead the

way into the dining room miss the

thank may we come in we're not too early

oh no indeed Millie's all ready aren't

you my love Miss Cy this is very kind of

you I hardly dared to Hope but I

promised last night we already had an

engagement remember oh but one makes

engagements In the Heat of the Moment

one doesn't always keep them ah but this

is one I had every intention of keeping

though on one condition only and what is

that that you call me by my first name

oh that's no condition at all but I have

one in return that I must positively

insist upon if we are to go about

together I must be responsible in the

financial sense most certainly not well

I shall positively go on no other terms

is that an ultimatum it is and airm one

very well then I suppose I must exceed

but on this occasion only goodbye we'll

try to be back soon after lunch oh don't

hurry on my account mod and I will have

plenty to talk about I can assure you

goodbye there are so many things I'd

like to ask you first my neighbor at the

dinner table last night Lord Mark he

struck me as being very easy very

Charming yet you mean is one to take

such charm quite at its face value so to

speak exactly well over here for a

stranger it's so hard to tell well all I

can tell you is that Aunt M for one does

she in fact takes him extremely

seriously and is that so very rare where

young men are concerned very rare indeed

but then of course they are not also

eligible and is he Lord Mark oh quite

prodigiously

served today at lunch I took the liberty

of speaking to M of Mr

den oh yes well it had begun to seem

strange to me that though he was known

to all four of us his name hung fire

Among Us well it's as we assumed he's

not yet back from the states she was

greatly interested to learn of your

having met him too I ventured to tell

her it was not so often as to have made

you as yet great friends I hope I was

right you speak as though you think I

might have something to conceal I assure

you I haven't well you and Miss Croy

have talked of him together I imagine

Kate and I well never a word why should

we oh then that may well be

significant significant of what

well I tell you all when I tell you that

Ma thinks it better for the present that

you shouldn't speak of him to her that

is of course unless she speaks of him

first but Ma thinks that she will

not you mean

because because there's something

between them oh no no not on her side so

I gather or perhaps it would be more

true to say that mod hopes there isn't

but why is Mr denture then so Dreadful

oh not in himself she likes him

immensely more I mean no it's the state

of his fortune or lack of it it seems he

has virtually no income at all and she

thinks he'll never do anything that he

has no Talent on the contrary she thinks

he has a great deal but not alas for

making money he'll never be a public man

or a rich man that is her contention if

he were public she'd do what she could

to help him and if he were merely Rich

she'd do her best to swallow him but as

it is she taboo him altogether I

see well from what you tell me I do find

it just a little strange that Kate's

never mentioned him before however she

has not oh perhaps my dear she feared

that back home he'd shall we say made up

to you just a little did he by the way

Mr denture of course not why do you make

it sound so improbable he'd be far from

the first to fall under the spell of

your weird and particular charm oh my

weird charm as you call it quite escaped

him I'm

afraid but that's not the point the

point is rather what Kate may be

persuaded to believe oh if Maud wishes

him to appear in a bad light you mean

well she may because Maud would like

Kate to marry Lord Mark that at least

Miss Croy must have made clear well not

in so many words but yes in her own

wonderful way she hinted at it certainly

oh M has great hopes of Lord Mark in

fact we're all to go down to his place

at matchim this weekend the invitation

arrived this afternoon we does that

include you and me it does but more

especially you my love so you see dear

child we begin to move in a

labyrinth well miss steel and what do

you think of us of you Mrs louder of

this house everything I'm sure you've

already formed a strong opinion well if

you must know I was thinking how hard

it's going to be to leave leave but you

mustn't think but you must stay on with

us you can my dear child you know you

can you must make your home here you're

very kind Mrs louder but above all you

must help me with Kate because nothing

so good has happened to me for a long

time as that you and she should become

friends and what makes it better is that

it should come about through my dear

delightful Susie restored to me after

all these years as thereby a

miracle because at my time of life my

dear one seldom makes new friends it's

like changing one's Bankers after the

the age of 50 one simply doesn't do it

uh Mrs ler Kate sends me to find you and

tell you they're in the big Marquee ah

yes thank you Lord Mark we'll join them

you coming my dear one moment there's

something I particularly wish to show

Miss th oh very well show me Lord Mark

she'll be with you in a moment thank

you now miss the come here a

moment there what do you think of

her oh it's beautiful Florentine by

bronzino my father brought it back from

Italy you you used to hang in the

passage and one thought nothing of it

until

recently but come now don't you see the

likeness likeness to yourself my

everyone's been remarking on

it I shall never be better than this

than she you'd scarce needs be better

for surely that's well enough

no I meant that everything this

afternoon has been too

beautiful and that perhaps everything

together will never be so right

again

yes yes you know I prize this particular

lar in fact it's become quite the

C Myer I'm sorry it's just foolishness

really now please here let

me thank you

I'll uh I'll fetch somebody thank

you my dearest girl what is it what has

happened oh it's Tru I'm nearly

recovered with the sun perhaps when we

sat outside just now yes perhaps no sit

still for a moment don't move

wa I must ask you to do me a very great

favor any service in the world dear girl

but it's a secret no no one must know I

I must be Wicked and false about it well

then I'm your woman oh do let's do

something really bad you know you're

impossibly without sin it's the only

thing I really have against you I'm

afraid I may not live up to your ideas

it's only to deceive Susie is that all

that's scarcely worth doing I should

have thought it's just this I'm must

making an appointment as soon as

possible to see sir Luke stret in Harley

Street Harley Street my dear are you ill

well if you mean in the hands of a

doctor yes at home that is and he

allowed me to travel only under the

condition that I should get in touch

with sir Luke if I felt the need and you

do so will you help

me and you've positively no relatives at

all not a parent or a sister or or even

an aunt no nobody would ever I'm a soul

survivor but I have many good friends

both at home and now I hope you're in

this country I don't doubt it but I hope

that from now on you'll number me

amongst them oh I feel I shall I'm sure

of it I felt it somehow the moment I

came here thank you sir Luke I don't

want you for the prison to do anything

at all other than obey a few simple

rules that I shall write down for you

then if I may I should like to come and

see you again in a day or two oh good

then you should meet Susan Stringham the

companion of my travels and the best of

my dear friends I should like to speak

to her very much are you by the way free

to live as and where you choose I mean

as far as whatever is oh certainly I may

rattle around the world till I'm black

and blue so if it's a question of

sending me somewhere oh I send you

nowhere though I should advise you as

soon as you reasonably can to get out of

London

oh may I then go back to the continent I

means somewhere warm all I ask is go

away enjoy yourself worry about

nothing but if I go away how will I keep

on seeing you or but perhaps you won't

want me

to indeed I shall I sh let you go

now thank you

siluk I'm sure you have a great spirit

my dear but don't try to Bear more than

than you need hard things have come to

you early but remember you've the right

at your age to be

happy and whenever I come back to

England May I visit you always

immediately whenever you

like so then you think that I shall come

that my dear is largely up to you is it

then I shall excellent I'm sure this

will prove to have been a very happy day

for both of

us thank you s

Luke so

am I to take it then that you think I

will live my dear child isn't that

precisely what I'm trying to persuade

you to take the trouble to

do oh thank goodness Kate Susy won't be

back for some time she's gone out for

the day well what did he say oh he's

lovely and it's all right yes but what's

the matter with you oh nothing that he

won't look after he says that I'm not to

worry and if I'm a good girl he'll look

after me forever and ever then there's

nothing at all wrong with you well I

shall need a little watching he says but

he'll do it he'll watch me oh I can't

tell you how good I feel it's as though

I've been on my knees to the priest I've

confessed and been absolved it has been

lifted off oh my darling you are too

sweet for words but it's just as I

thought so you can do as you like quite

isn't it delightful well so long as I

don't do it here in London what you mean

you to leave us go abroad he would

prefer it yes oh but not I hope to

beastly rivieras angines boredoms of

that sort he makes no special

stipulation wherever I choose he says

I'm to go in holy for pleasure oh does

he indeed what kind of pleasure oh the

very highest and what my precious girl

might that be oh that my dear with your

help I hope to find

out goodness gracious Aunt M you didn't

I H tell

her Miss Ste I oh this is an afternoon

for pleasant surprises it seems

do come in Mrs louder I thought my dear

you to spent the afternoon shopping oh

but I did aunt and then I called around

to see Milly on my way home Susie's not

here I'm afraid she's gone out of town

for the day so I understand her to say

Kate my dear if as you claim you've been

shopping all afternoon I'm sure miss

steel will permit you the use of her

room for a few moments to tidy oh yes of

course to tidy Aunt I was not aware of

the need then a glance of Miss Seal's

mirror should make you so yes a

thank you let me show you Kate M Ste

Kate knows the way I'm

sure I took this opportunity my dear as

I thought to speak privately to

you to me Mrs louder I will be brutally

brief I know that in America you several

times met my niece's friend Mr

dener on one of two occasions with Mrs

Stringham yes has she referred to him in

anywh

no and I haven't spoken of him to her

either a that is what I wanted to know

could you perhaps do so now in any way

you think fit quite casually so that one

might discover whether he's back in

England or not but surely if I haven't

mentioned him till now she may wonder

why I've been making a mystery of him

but hasn't she in her own way been doing

just that by not mentioning him to you

perhaps but can't you ask her yourself

Mrs louder oh but we never speak of him

oh he's an acquaint you don't approve of

then rather say I disapprove of her for

the poor young man she doesn't care for

him you mean he does for her oh too much

I fear he besets her and I don't want

her wored and nor do I want him for that

matter so you do like him then oh but of

course why don't you I met him I think

only three times in New

York but will you've been writing to her

do you think my dear that is exactly

what I want to know push in a little f

and I dare say she'll tell you I ask it

for the poor young man's sake as much as

for my own and now I must leave

you Kate may take a cab if she doesn't

wish to walk tell

her goodbye goodbye Mrs

L

well what has she been saying about me

what makes you think she said anything

oh because I know Aunt MO

and because when I left this room your

eyes were shining and now they are

not is there anything then that she

would say only that I'm all very fine in

my way but that I'm not alas the sweet

straightforward creature that you are my

love in fact you may very well come to

loathe me one day why do you say such

things to me because you are a dove and

compared with you I'm

well I'm a

brute we must talk together you and I oh

my dearest girl when for goodness sake

do we do anything else oh not now when

Susan Stringer May burst in upon us at

any moment but somewhere undisturbed

where should we go tomorrow morning

Kensington Gardens well I'm afraid

tomorrow morning for me is not possible

the afternoon perhaps oh dear I did so

want to be out when salute comes to see

Susie oh but never mind I can find some

other EXP excuse for my absence I'm

quite

sure miss steel what a wonderful bit of

luck I say don't go Miss steel don't you

remember denture meron denture we met in

New York of course I remember Kate

here's Miss thei I told you what

tremendous talks we had together in the

states but of course you two know each

other I was forgetting we do indeed in

fact we're the greatest of friends

aren't we Millie my love this really is

an extraordinary business I arrived back

only last night Miss steel so uh Miss

cry and I will we arranged this little

meeting before his paper claims him when

he'll be lost to us all you'll find I'm

sorry I had absolutely no idea My Dear

Miss deal what in the world is there to

be sorry about what better could happen

to a chap on his first day home come on

join us oh no if you don't mind why not

say something Kate persuade her ah but

I'm afraid I have no influence over her

at all quite the reverse in fact I

really must go I have an appointment and

I'm late already well if you must but

we'll meet again I trust oh yes of

course I hope so Kate knows where to

find you I'm sure we must have a reunion

sometime to celebrate the fact of us all

being such great friends oh yes indeed

now if you both don't think me rude well

goodbye then for the time being goodbye

she likes you she likes you very much

why do you say that oh one can always

tell at least another woman can she

won't tell I think that she's seen us

does Mrs ladder know I'm back oh if she

does it's not for me but I shall speak

to her straight away to be on the safe

side oh my cleverness I assure you has

grown quite

infernal Kate take me now as I am dear

man don't SPO spil it wait for me give

me time believe in me and it will all be

beautiful in the end I assure you do you

love me love me love me I love you love

you love

you well I'm sorry but so Luca just left

I dare not let her see me cry in fact

after this I must never cry again it

would be a confession of Despair oh I

would cry myself I dare safe I hadn't so

many visits to make it's my afternoon

for visiting so do forgive me well he

says that the great thing the only thing

now is that she should be happy of

course but what particular kind of

happiness is he talking about no have

you never my dear been in love my good

woman frequently but not on doctor's ORD

well of course we don't ask his leave to

do so but well it's something to know

that he thinks it's so good for us one

hardly needs a doctor to tell one that I

think has he anyone in particular to

prescribe is it work well no but I think

you know who we both have in mind who

who has in a sense brought us all

together in This Magnificent way

magnificent it may be but poor Millie

won't be if she marries meron denf

that's whom you have in why not it's

always magnificent to marry the man one

loves oh but we're going too fast how in

the first place is he to be made to care

for her well simply by being put in the

way of it oh then for God's sake put him

in the way one feels that you have him

like everyone else in your hands ah but

I haven't Kate you mean she still cares

for him she thinks she cares in in any

case you must deny positively to your

girl that she even thinks she does but I

lie so badly I thank God lie well so

leave it to me by helping your girl I

should be indirectly helping my

own even as Mrs meron denture my girl

would never be a nobody quite but much

as I like the young man my girl I think

can do

better oh Mr D how very pleasant to see

you again Kate's not down yet but no

matter I want you particularly to meet

two American fans of ours who to be here

tonight but I was forgetting you know

them already of course Mrs Stringham yes

but miss the only had the pleasure of

meeting two or three times really I

somehow gained the impression from her

it was rather more frequently than that

however your meetings whatever their

number seem to impress themselves upon

her mind oh suie what's this hello oh my

dear she sent her deepest apology she's

most upset oh but not elytra oh not in

the sense that I think you mean it I'm

happy to say but overdone quite

dreadfully overdone I had to put her to

bed immediately poor child she's

desperately disappointed oh here's Kate

do wonder that I see only the best of

her My

Dear Mrs strum where is she quite worn

out poor child by so much sightseeing

apparently she asked me particularly to

send you her apology she said you'd

understand oh but of course the poor

dear thing tell her I should come and

see her tomorrow oh I will indeed now my

dear do take for Mr denture introduce

him to as many people as possible to

make up his disappointment come suia I

want you particularly

to you see what did I tell you she loves

you why should you surprise don't you

see that's her reason for funking it

poor thing but wasn't I quite decent to

her when we met you saw for yourself oh

absolutely Charming you fiend that's

what I mean oh you have all the right

instincts look we really shouldn't be

talking like this nonsense to seem not

to know each other now would be really

overdoing it

but I think all the same she may really

be ill you mean very ill I must say at

First Sight she gives one that

impression but if that's so why didn't

they go home oh they would but they

postponed it now because of you because

of me she couldn't see the future poor

soul it remained for her a dark confused

thing but now quite suddenly the world's

before her she has so much to lose

because her success here has been

astounding and she's taken it all like a

perfect angel if one can imagine an

angel with such a thumping bank balance

is her Fortune so very large absolutely

enormous so Aunt M says and she as you

know is never wrong in such matters what

good in the world then can n me do her

every possible good to begin with you

can console her indeed for what for all

that she must give up poor soul if she

is ill don't you see I want to make life

as agreeable as possible for her to do

that I use what means I can you are what

I have that is most precious therefore

it is to you I turn am I to understand

then that what you wanted me is to make

up to a sick girl she never in a way

strikes one as sick that's the beauty of

her she won't show it any more than your

watchwood the moment before it ceases

ticking for want of being wound up she

won't as it were smell of drug she won't

taste of medicine no one will know she's

wonderful what extraordinary state of

health do you think she's in for

goodness sake I believe that if she's

ill at all she's very ill can't tell you

why but that's the way I see her she'll

have it all or miss it all and knew my

love we'll miss nothing

okay ah Lord Mark I don't know whether

you've met Mr Merkin denture who's just

back from America Oh indeed how'd you do

how do you do my aunt is in the other

room I think thank you and miss the ah

Millie was compelled to disappoint us

I'm afraid I've just been consoling Mr

denture here well she's not ill I trust

oh no no no I think not we must all take

the greatest care over her I

feel this way please if you

would so it's here who's your aunt's man

it is how does she reconcile his

interest in Miss thei with his interest

in me exactly ah well you see she likes

him uh welcomes him but the beauty of it

is she doesn't really trust him takes

him to her heart yet thinks he cheats

that's the way people are what they

think of their enemies goodness knows is

bad enough but one's still more appalled

by what they think of their friends and

Miss steel what is her position in all

this Millie I've already told you is in

love with you go around tomorrow and

you'll see for yourself I'm what sort of

what basis does that make for my seeing

her oh I don't mind don't mind my

leading her on don't mind her leading

you well she won't so you have nothing

to mind she doesn't of course know that

I care for you oh have you denied it my

dear man we've never even spoken of

never yet you're her closest friend

bitter as that may be to your pride my

love never so you see you're quite free

go to her tomorrow on that basis Kate

you're prodigious of course I'm

prodigious haven't I always told you sir

compared to you all other women are

stupid so many books once read before

but you're a whole library of the

unknowns the

uncut don't fail me now it would kill me

I won't fail you you see one day I shall

oblige you to keep that promise I hope

you will Mrs louder I shall be most

happy to you must go ah Lord Mark come

and talk to me I've seen nothing of you

the whole evening my dear Miss Cy

nothing would give me greater pleasure

forgive me Mr Denton

one moment Mr D Mrs Mrs string was just

speaking to me about poor Miss steel

such a shame she couldn't be with us yes

a great disappointment I was hoping so

much to renew our brief acquaintance

then well do so Mr denter you know where

they're staying of course if not I can

give you their address thank you I think

I can say on Miss Steel's behalf you'd

be most welcome curious you should press

me in this way Mrs louder Kate has just

been doing exactly the same thing you're

almost concerned my good manners thank

you I mentioned it as a matter of some

urgency Mr D because between you and me

Mrs Stringham and Miss steel will not

long be with us I fear they go bad well

then if she won't go until she's seen

you I'm sure really and when she does go

we of course will go too then I fear and

you if you will may come and join us

I'll write of course and give you a

formal invitation thank you again it's

the most kind suggestion but there are

all sorts of things to consider my work

and so that oh yes of course but again

against it there's the question of not

losing the great occasion of your life

and what might that be Mrs lder I think

you know Mr

denture I can smooth your path for you

and I will oh she's clever she's

charming and she's good and her Fortune

is

B I consider I'm treating you very

handsomely oh you are and I'm obliged to

you for such an offer what doesn't

belong to me but there's no reason why

it shouldn't do you and I think perhaps

in any case you owe me something do you

not most certainly I do for inviting me

here tonight to begin with oh but I've

gone much further for you than that I

can assure you oh I've told the proper

lie for you Mr Dent once again I must

thank you but really don't you

understand Miss steel would never

trespass on property which by any

stretch of imagination could be called

chaos well then I depend upon you to

make me right as it were and now miss G

good night Mr dentra in case you're

leaving early

but how kind and Charming of you to come

do sit

down so now what's to become of you do

you both plan to rush about paying

visits is that it oh no indeed we're to

go abroad as soon as arrangements are

completed oh really not for long I hope

well we have no definite plans and you

how do you propose to spend your summer

Mr denture oh I shall have to spend it

in sorted toil I'm afraid drenched in

Mercenary ink my time in Your Country

Must count as my holiday but you'll come

back to us I hope you must whom do you

mean by us Mr denture all of us here all

of us who want to surround you with our

friendship and sympathy why do you say

sympathy but it's a pale stupid word not

what I mean at all but the people that

I'd most come back for a Mrs louder and

dare Kate I do anything for

Kate Mr D

yes of course I can see what very great

friends you've become I like to think so

in fact I'm entirely in her hands and

glad to be she can be somewhat masterful

yes or yet I wouldn't say that she

bullies me or on me in the most

delightful way oh but you must know her

so much better than I yes yet I

sometimes wonder if any of us really do

oh I doo sometimes have B

feeling come

in your courage mam thank thank

you I must leave you oh no please but

surely I have an appointment that's all

the other side of the

park would it be too much trouble to ask

you to come with me at least part of the

way my dear Miss what a Charming idea oh

good I dress very quickly there are

books and things

oh she's in the bedroom preparing to go

out and you're going with her with your

approval yes oh my approval is complete

so it won't have been from illness that

she stayed away last night I like her in

fact I like her very much of course we

love her all of us that's why what I'm

doing is not easy oh and what exactly

are you doing I think you know but it's

for you I'm doing it I do anything for

you good excellent that's the way I like

you in fact it's only for that that I'm

letting you do well God knows what with

me oh well you can always back out now

if you're so squeamish before she comes

out you mean just run off do a bunk I'll

stay here and make it straight with her

as best I can she'll be upset of course

but she won't die of it no you mean

you'll go

on I'll go on if you swear again that

you love me what here are you

mad I'll go then and leave

you all right then go

I do hope I haven't kept you too long

not at all you've been extremely quick

the call that I have to make is in

Harley Street if that would be in your

direction that would suit me very well

thank you

yes we leave on Friday for Venice so you

see what good you've already done me and

that clever lady I met when I came to

visit you she goes too Susan Stringham

oh dear Yes she'll be with me I hope to

the end H to the end of water well of

everything then you're in luck Miss

steel she'll be with you a long long

time yet but just you and she no we

shall have two companions two ladies

just four dreary women you I should say

are quite the least dreary woman I can

think of oh thank you but I hope that as

we travel about we shall not be entirely

unnoticed by the

gentleman because when you talk to me of

life as you once did I remember I take

it that you mean well mostly gentlemen

yes of course I mean also the whole

beautiful show of life in all its

aspects but gentlemen yes by all means

and may I be permitted to be one of

their

number you suuk I shall be in Italy

Myself by the end of the month I should

like to include Venice in my tour if I

may oh would you would you

really I just feel that if you could see

me sometimes be near at hand then I'd

have nothing to fear you've nothing to

fear my child you're all right well then

keep me sir I will keep me

keep me I

promise it's all right Eugenio I wasn't

asleep SC Senor there is a gentleman an

English gentleman he asks if he may

speak to you oh Mr denture send him in

it is not Mr denture

senorina oh goodness you do not wish to

see him Sor oh it's not that

eugo it's just that I've come to value

my afternoon Siesta so

highly oh but never mind send him in

please Eugenia s

thank

you Lord Mark I was shivering on my own

in Carl's bed and suddenly I could stand

it no longer forgive me but of course

this is delightful and better still I

find you

alone well what a temple to taste you

have here miss and yet at the same time

such a jolly home

the others have gone over to Santa Maria

I'm afraid you could find them I'm sure

no thank you unless of course you'd come

with me oh but you see I don't go about

that's why you so happily found me here

but you should with that tremendous

staircase down into the courtyard and

there ought always to be people at the

top and bottom in uh verony costumes to

see you do it yes it's all extremely

beautiful I adore the place already in

fact I think I should like to die here

no it's not suitable for that besides

you mustn't treat us all so badly well

you know don't you that we're all just a

little bit in love with you and you

weren't born to make us miserable you

were born to make us all

happy you've always been so kind Lord

Mark do you remember something I said to

you that day at matcham or if I didn't

then I fully meant

to oh I remember everything at matchim

seems another life 100 years

ago it's too monstrous that one can't

ask you as a friend what one so much

wants to

know you mean I suppose am I really

ill since you ask

me yes I am and you do nothing about it

I do everything what am I doing now one

can't do more than live so you see I

Shan after all have missed so very much

but why should you miss anything you're

the one person in the world surely for

whom it shouldn't be necessary you see I

know what you want oh then what is that

you want to be

adored do I and I have come all this way

here to do

it and your idea I suppose is that in

the end I should be forced to adore you

in return is that right not forced I

hope is it so inconceivable that you

should do so of your own accord Lord

Mark I

once again I'm enormously grateful to

you for your extreme kindness to me but

you need have no fear of my taking you

seriously ah but I am serious miss the

you may not know it but I have never

been more so in my life then if I may

say so you shouldn't

be but I know that in reality you didn't

come to Venice to see me and you mustn't

out of kindness pretend that you did oh

and whom then did I come to see a much

older friend than I in the the best one

you have in the world or so I can

believe her to be could you be referring

to Kate Croy I could indeed and M so you

intend me to marry her is that right

what I intend doesn't matter Mrs louder

intends it and that does

uhhuh you know it and moreover she knows

you know it ah but by the same token I

also know that she happens to be very

much in love with a particular person oh

I beg your pardon but that's not true oh

and what makes you say that I have it on

the very best Authority you mean Mrs

louder's hers yes but even better than

that

I when we're very intimate Kate and I we

tell each other things she hasn't said

it in so many brutal words but you're

sure as sure as one ever can be in such

matters she's deep Miss

Croy Kate I mustn't stay they'll be

looking for me are you you absolutely

certain it was he of course I couldn't

possibly be

mistaken but why should he come all this

way and then leave after an hour without

seeing anyone well he did he came to

make her his offer of marriage and when

she declined it his business was done he

went home you think he proposed marriage

to Millie oh why not and what kind of

blundering asinine weathercock is he For

Heaven's Sake oh you are in love with

her you know but anyway why shouldn't he

under the very nose of the woman he's

supposed to be in love with ah but he's

already had his TR at me so that makes

it all right oh does it indeed I'm glad

my love you can still be jealous Kate

don't you understand that for me this

whole situation is becoming quite

intolerable I scarcely see why if Aunt m

is content then why shouldn't we it's

not Mrs lder who's on my

mind

oh Millie you

mean you know I wish you'd speak of her

more my love two aren mud say something

handsome and sincere because you know

you do like her you like her very much

Kate don't ask more of me don't

I give you so much you give me nothing

is this nothing I'm risking everything

at this moment by coming here at

all I can go on a little longer possibly

with your help without it I

can't

oh and what help exactly do you

want a but I must go Mark Square in 20

minutes they said Kate why don't we have

done with this whole wretched business

and just face them all as we really are

do you want to kill her kill her you

know perfectly well what I mean we can't

We're In Too Deep we've told too many

lies have we I've told no lies oh well

thank you very much and rather than have

to I'd go tomorrow all right then

go oh Kate Kate you know I'd tell any

lie for you if only you'd come to

me I come to you here tonight oh but I

can't you know I can't tonight after

dinner with saluk arriving at the plate

and everyone coming in nobody would

notice with two grains of Courage we'd

manage it somehow people in our

situation always can oh it's not for the

reason you think that I hold

back tonight then you will you'll come

tonight Kate answer me oh let me go

please

Kate oh Mr denture I'm so glad you're

early I came a little before time

especially to see her well then you must

wait a bit she's coming down later oh

she's not uh oh no no indeed No in fact

she's much better no she's saving

herself for sir Luke uh it's to be quite

an occasion so I see by all this

aggravated Grand oh isn't it lovely I

feel that bringing out the full glory of

the place makes her really happy it's a

veryy picture don't you think I mean

with me as the inevitable dwarf the

small blackamore stuffed into the corner

of the foreground for

effect in that case what am I or am I

not even in it oh indeed you are you are

the grand young man who surpasses all

the others and holds a LT the wine cup

but what we hope we all hope that you'll

be faithful to us that you haven't come

down here for just a a foolish few days

well my plans are not absolutely certain

I'm afraid well you mean the pinch and

pressure of work exactly the daily task

the daily wage bothersome Necessities

but couldn't you write about Venice ah

if only I could but if as you say she's

so much better why has she sent for

saluk stret oh but she hasn't he's come

of his own accord now she's delighted of

course particularly that he should come

just now because she wanted above all

things that he should meet

you oh but there's M will you forgive me

me but what in the world have I to do

with a man like saluk stret I'll meet

him talk to him and you'll see he sets

great store by you

see

isn't she

marvelous oh she's a dove have you ever

seen her so Splendid and

Shining Mrs Stringham so she's better

she isn't she's worse she's done all

this for salute but she can't deceive

him they're looking this way I think

he'd like to talk to you Mrs Stringham

warned me he would so you see how we all

look to you yes but look to me for what

you know what I wanted you you know

perfectly well so you want me to marry a

dying girl is that right to marry her

yeah yes if you cared for me at all I

can't imagine how you could even bear to

speak of such a thing when you know me

better you'll know how much I can and

can't bear I am a person thank goodness

who can do what I don't like so it

seems all you have to do is stare leave

it to her if you're so squeamish she

will do all that is necessary you mean

she may offer me marriage if you want to

know my dear I can think of nothing that

she may not offer you and you'll just

sit by is that right and watch oh dear

no we shall not be here oh where may I

ask will you be we go home I was about

to tell you on Thursday indeed and is

this sudden change of plan Mrs louder's

idea very much so announced not an hour

ago so you see yes I do see in fact it

makes everything fit so Mrs Lou is

prepared to leave the poor girl here to

die no no she's convinced she will not

die not if you stay well she has a high

opinion of me it seems haven't I always

told you

sir you'll stay then on your honor very

well I'll stay on my honor if you come

to me tonight on yours but we've already

disced and you avoided an answer if you

do so again I'll do nothing I'll leave

before you do tomorrow

morning and if I come I'll do all that

you

say then I will on your honor On My

Honor there you are kid my dear you

really must not hide for Mr denure away

like this saluk is most anxious to meet

him come Mr denure Miss steel is beoning

to us I think

that's

come

on okay

darling you knew I

would I promise

beautiful

wonderful wonderful gate

near my love we have a

visitor Mr denture how kind not kind at

all do sit down and join me

I'll leave you my love Mr denture will

pull the blind I know when the sun gets

round you must miss them both extremely

I'm sure Susie and I are quite lost

without them oh I do of course but I

shall try to make a virtue of it London

is an impossible place to work in it's

high time I set myself to something more

ambitious now seems just the moment a

book you mean of A Sort yes you mean

you've already begun something since

you've been here in a tentative way yes

a mere sketch for a beginning that's all

oh dear then I'm afraid we've all of us

made a dreadful mess of your

time have you got Pleasant rooms I mean

will you find it easy to work there as

easy as I find it anywhere I dare

say you're very secretive over your

whereabouts Mr denture but Susie and I

are determined to seek you out and

surprise you before the weather breaks

so be warned oh but would that be wise

wise Mr denture I mean for you to leave

the house now that the weather's

changing why do you believe me to be so

very bad then I'll believe whatever you

tell me well then I'm

Splendid I want so much to live that I

know I can I

will I will of course you can you

must in that case why may we not pay you

a visit did I I ever forbid it you may

come any day you wish of

course I can see him being an awful

warar about

it and if I'm not careful you'll go home

and leave

us please forget what I said don't worry

M I shall leave you not now

now tell me about your book please

book

um

well to be quite honest Miss

steal there is no

book you're not writing not at all not

at all

well then what are you doing I mean for

what exactly are you staying miss the if

I could only oh I asked too many

questions please forgive me I wish from

the bottom of my heart I could be sure

exactly why I am

staying that I could be completely

honest with myself and more particularly

with you but one's feelings one's

motives are so appallingly mixed I find

I know I know I fully

understand and my feelings at being so

glad that you've not gone though

whatever the reason may be are probably

at least as complicated as your own mrad

denture so need we be absolutely

explicit perhaps either to ourselves or

to each

other well then need

we not as far as I'm concerned I can

assure you

it's enough for me that you'll come and

visit us until well for as long as that

remains a

possibility I shall come you can rest

assured for as long as you still want me

to oh that will be for a long while yet

I hope and you're to go about please

make the most of this time make it

something that you look back on later as

in its OD way very

happy would you do that please Mr

denture I

promise

and thank

you thank

you Millie my love if you've forgotten

the time I have not I'm sorry Mr denture

but we follow a strict regime in this

houseold I'm sure you understand I was

about to leave at that moment you

needn't apologize for sending Mr denture

away he'll be seeing quite as much of us

as he can in the next few weeks I fancy

ah Eugen what truly appalling weather

will it gone like this for days do

excuse Senor the ladies they are a

little fatigued oh I'm sorry my

instructions are to admit no one I'm

afraid Senor why has anything happened

is she ill m i mean I'm sorry Senor I

cannot say but surely she'll just see me

I'm sorry Senor my instructions are

nobody at all scre if you don't mind uh

I should go to oh yes of course you have

my London address now please don't

hesitate to get in touch with me I'd

come at once you know that I hardly

think it will be necessary now if you'll

excuse me thank

you oh thank God you're still here what

is it is she worse I I don't know I I I

scarcely know what she is here let me

take your things yes thank you I'm so

glad you've come in a way I've just been

wretchedly waiting for you I was so

afraid when I knew that you tried to see

her that you might already have left

I'll leave the day after tomorrow but

please tell

me Mr

dentu she's turned her face to the wall

you mean she's dying I mean she's

scarcely speaks she hasn't so much as

named you since that Dreadful day the

day he came to see her no Lord Mark that

intolerable ass what has he done she

doesn't want to die poor darling think

of her age think of her beauty think of

her goodness think of all she has and

is but she just lies there stiffening

herself and clinging to what little is

left for her but what could he say what

does he

know more important what do you know

everything he told her Mr denture that

you had all the while been engaged to

marry Miss

Croy so he has told her

that he came for reasons that I can only

guess at especially to deliver her this

cruel

blow she took it brave soul that she is

without betraying a sign she would she's

magnificent as you say she's magnificent

why why should he even do such a thing

to come all this way and then simply to

destroy a poor girl who's only a few

months to live I think it was not really

for her that he came

you know I suppose that on his first

visit he asked her to marry him and she

refused no I didn't know well I leave

you to guess the reason for that refusal

you think he came merely out of malice

to harm me regardless of what it might

do to her but that scarcely makes him

any better does

it but how did he know how about you and

Miss Croy does it really matter how he

knew oh God does she utterly hate me

Millie I don't know no one ever will she

won't talk of such things

oh Lord what can one say what can one

do Mr denture before you leave would you

go to her just

once would she see me I think she would

and if you do would you deny it for her

sake everything that he so cruy led her

to believe

so she does believe it then oh God knows

what she believes

and to you that's not

important what I believe will depend on

how you act I I promise to believe

anything you say if to save her

happiness you'll deny

it will you for her

sake my love he's here thank you a few

moments longer Mr denture I'll be within

call Mrs Stringham led me to suppose

you'd be kind enough to see me but of

course I wanted most particularly to see

you again before I

leave so you leave yes tomorrow I'm

afraid I must my

work everything demands

it then of course you must go Mr dent

it's been so very good of you to stay on

in the way that you have oh no oh yes

and may I say while I

can how deeply and truly grateful I

am grateful m to

me yes to

you I was

afraid when you came to call last time

and I believe that you found that we

already had a visitor that you might

have left us

immediately oh I'm glad that you did

not miss

steel I believe during that

meeting certain statements were made

concern Mr T

please I thought we had agreed you and I

that our relationship whatever it may be

was one which didn't demand specific

assurance is on either side yes but

after what may I say that for my

part that Arrangement still holds

good now if you don't

mind yes of

course Goodbye Mr

denture and thank you

thank you

and you mean to say you've been back for

a whole fortnite without even making a

sign I've only been following our har

agreed plan by not rushing here to see

you at once and you've not heard from

Mrs S why you our news is is recent as a

few days ago and is she

still alive she was when Mrs Stringham

last

rote was it so very terrible since you

asked me directly yes

you know I suppose he came all the way

back especially to tell her everything

your friend Lord Mark everything

everything it was his visit that has

taken away her will to live he told her

the scoundrel that you and I are

secretly engaged but he doesn't know it

and he must somehow have guessed had you

seen him yes of course he came to

Lancaster gate several times at Aunt M's

request needless to say and what for

God's sake did you say to him but in any

case couldn't you have denied it told

her that he was mistaken and lied to her

you mean by the way my dear we are I

still engaged yes of course we're still

engaged but surely to save her life poor

thing if I had denied you then I would

have stuck to

it to save your conscience so you see

how fine it was of her that she never

directly asked

me you have fallen in love with

her well say so if you like why need you

mind with a dying

girl or at least she wouldn't have died

poor thing without having been

loved she want wanted nothing

more and I don't

mind I don't mind because I think you've

done it to please me and does it yes it

does more important it will please Aunt

M We needn't Fear her anymore we've done

it we've squared her no in what

way Millie will not have loved you for

nothing you

see Kate Mary you mean now before well

before news of any kind comes from Italy

if if we do it now while we still time

it would make us right again don't you

see what on Earth has happened to you

simply that something snapped inside me

last night I can't bear this any longer

it's as I am I'm afraid that you must

have me I simply don't see what has

changed we've been going on so well

together now suddenly you desert Me Kate

Kate but don't let squabble about such a

thing now Of All Times come tomorrow

early and join us for church Aunt M

particularly asks that you should you

see how greatly she values you now I

must fly or she'll wonder where in the

world I am till

tomorrow a Mr

Den I'm so glad you've

come so our dear little Dove as Kate

calls us folded her wonderful wings at

last then Milly the steel you mean the

news came late last night by Telegraph

and Poes Stringham but you'd not

heard from Mrs Stringham no not a word

for Kate is naturally very much

distressed she's in the drawing room go

to her Mr denter Comfort her poor child

may I but of course she needs you

Smithers take Mr D's cat for him such a

tragedy she wanted so much to live poor

thing why if a petty sick shouldn't she

with everything as it were to help her I

mean the Mere Money of her the darling

if it isn't too disgusting at this

particular moment to mention such a

thing which reminds me I do hope you'll

be able to join us sometime over

Christmas Mr denture I'm afraid we shall

all feel disinclined for anything but a

rather quiet celebration under the

circumstances of course I know you will

understand it's all right my dear Mrs

lus just told me it came last

night too late to get in touch with

you yesterday when I came home from the

office there was a letter waiting on my

table in her writing written on her

deathbed poor thing written possibly

some while ago but posted to arrive on

Christmas Eve I knew immediately what

was in it without even touching it you

speak somehow as though you still hadn't

touched it I've touched it right enough

I'm touching it or rather it's touching

me at this moment you mean you have it

here you've brought it with you but

first I want you to give me the answer

you avoided before what happened between

you and Lord Mark that he should have

gone back to Venice with the awful

result we now know in short how in the

world did he know we were engaged are

you trying to fix it on me that I must

have deliberately told him my dear Kate

I'm not trying to fix anything it's just

that I'm somewhat tormented and trying

to clear my mind he came yes several

times while you were in Venice and on

M's invitation not mine well there you

are well if I'm there as you so

gracefully put it for having refus to

meet him in his frequent and pressing

requests I plead guilty to it would you

rather I had given him the kind of

answer that would have kept him here in

England did you not know he was going no

of course I

didn't and I'm afraid that even if it

doesn't fit into your strange notion of

me I would have given him just the same

answer if I had the fact that I haven't

referred to this occasion until now is

simply because the recol of it does not

afford me much

pleasure and I hope that if you're

satisfied you'll now let this matter

drop oh certainly I'd be only too happy

to let it drop strange though that he

should be the one person to guess our

secret I mean he's not clever no but

just clever enough in his own interests

and unscrupulous it seems possibly

anyway if you love

me please never refer to this business

again okay I do love

you it's because I love you that I'm

here

and it's because I love

you that I brought you

this but you've not even broken the seal

no that's for you to do open something

from her to you oh no but it's precisely

because it's from

her I think you know what it

says your instinct tells you as you say

it was time to come now at the season of

gifts she means dear thing to give you

the final proof of how much you You've

Been Loved no I will not break your seal

you refuse positively besides we know

what it says don't we both of us do

we what do we know that she makes you

rich why did she tell you never we

didn't speak of such things that to my

mind wouldn't have been playing fair and

I did play fair with her whatever you

may think Kate it's because you played

Fair as you call it that time with me in

Venice d i p you this

you really want me to take it I really

want you to take

it I think that what it really comes

down to is that you're afraid afraid of

the truth and

afraid it's wonderful of you to be in

love with her still I was never in love

with her I believe that when we left

Venice you were not your change came

that day you last saw her she died for

you then that you might understand her

from that hour you did

and so do

I she did it for

us I used to call her a

dove well she stretched out her wings to

cover

us

don't you don't want to know I don't

want to know you remember what we always

said of her that she was

stupendous I believe that if she were to

leave me a remembrance it would not be

meager it is not

meager Kate I want you I beg with you to

join with me in this by renouncing what

is not mine to renounce how can by a

single word by telling me you're with me

or better still I make it all over to

you every single penny so that the

decision is mine the decision is

yours I can see that you'll marry me

without the money

but you won't marry me with

it

so Kate one

moment your word of Honor that you're

not still in love with her

memory her

memory my

dear don't try to speak as though you

couldn't be remember I know you too

well

yes that's it I can see that her memory

is now your real

love it's all you

need

Kate

Kate I'll marry you now if you like

within the

hour as we were as we

were ah but don't you see my dear the

tragedy is we can never again be as we

were

for