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"You disturb me. You fill me with envy."
"I didn't think of that. I wanted to see you again."
"And then you will go off round the world, you will see the Tropics,
you will see India, you will go into Chinese cities all hung with
vermilion, you will climb mountains. Oh! men can do all the
splendid things. Why do you come here to remind me of it? I have
never been anywhere, anywhere at all. I never shall go anywhere.
Never in my life have I seen a mountain. Those Downs there--look at
them!--are my highest. And while you are travelling I shall think
of you--and think of you. . . ."
"Would YOU like to travel?" he asked as though that was an
extraordinary idea.
"Do you think EVERY girl wants to sit at home and rock a cradle?"
"I never thought YOU did."
"Then what did you think I wanted?"
"What DO you want?"
She held her arms out widely, and the moonlight shone in her eyes as
she turned her face to him.
"Just what you want," she said; "--THE WHOLE WORLD!
"Life is like a feast," she went on; "it is spread before everybody
and nobody must touch it.


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