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“If at that party I had happened to say that I worked at the Court, it was possible that we would have had an entirely different conversation, that he would have then seemed to me an intelligent and informed man, who knew a great deal about a world I was only just entering […] The thought was disquieting that our identities should be so mutable, and therefore the course of our lives.”

“He asked if we could meet again and I sent a single word reply: Yes. Such a response was not in character for me, not in its brevity and not in its unequivocal nature, it was as if I had been influenced by the directness of his own corre-spondence. That was, I thought, the prospect offered by a new relationship, the opportunity to be someone other than yourself.”