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160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1892
He smiled. “That’s childish. I’m not so small-minded as you think me. And I have no right at all to take you with me.”
“I can’t live without you.”
“But think how long you lived without me before! I was already doomed when I met you a year ago. I didn’t know it, but even then I had a presentiment.”
“You don’t know now.”
“Yes, I do. That’s why I want you to have your freedom, beginning today.” She clung all the closer. “Take it, take it,” he said. She did not reply, but looked up at him as if she didn’t understand.
She cried out, “I’ve lived with you, I’ll die with you.”
She had partly recovered her composure. She threw her hat down on the chair behind her, sat down on the sofa, and said coaxingly ”darling, I only went out for an hour in the open air. I was afraid I might fall ill myself and then what use would I be to you? And I took a cab so as to get back quickly.”