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was in absolute command of herself. She asked for a glass of wine and having
drunk it said calmly :
'" This is how one pays for lying," she said, " and I don't want to go
on lying any more. I would have stayed with you this evening, but I didn't
want to do it like that. I don't want his last memory of me to be that I ran
out on him in the middle of the night. He has never done me any harm .. He
was suddenly called out, there's a fire at his factory. But he'll be back
soon. I'll tell him tomorrow morning, tell him I love someone else and then
come back to you for ever. If you don't want me to do that, tell me."
'" My poor, poor girl," I said to her. " I won't allow you to do it.
It will be hell living with me and I don't want you to perish here as I
shall perish."
'" Is that the only reason? " she asked, putting her eyes close to
mine. ' " That's the only reason."
'She grew terribly excited, hugged me, embraced my neck and said:
'" Then I shall die with you. I shall be here tomorrow morning."
'The last that I remember seeing of her was the patch of light from my
hall and in that patch of light a loose curl of her hair, her beret and her
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