Love Again
“An escape from your background?’ ‘Oh no,’ he said at once. ‘To me she represents—well, everything.’ She could feel her whole self rejecting this mad exaggeration. Her body, even her face, was composing itself into critical lines, without any directing intention from her intelligence. She lowered her eyes. But he was watching her—yes, she already knew that close, intelligent look—and he knew what she was feeling, for he said, ‘Please don’t tell me you don’t know what I mean.’ ‘Perhaps,’ she said... cautiously, ‘I have decided to forget it.’ ‘Why?’ he enquired, not intending flattery. ‘You are a good-looking woman.’ ‘I am a good-looking woman still,’ said she. ‘I am still a good-looking woman. Quite so. That’s it. I haven’t been in love for twenty years. Recently I’ve been thinking about that—twenty years.’ As she spoke she was amazed that she was saying to this stranger (but she knew he was not that) things she had never said to dear and good friends, her family—that is what they were—at the theatre.MoreLess
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