\"But if she thinks that—why isn't she in a hurry too?\"
\"Because she's not like that: she's so much nobler. She insists all the more on the long engagement, to give me time—\"
\"Time to give her up for the other woman?\"
\"If I want to.\"
Madame Olenska leaned toward the fire and gazed into it with fixed eyes. Down the quiet street Archer heard the approaching trot of her horses.
\"That IS noble,\" she said, with a slight break in her voice.
\"But if she thinks that—why isn't she in a hurry too?\"
\"Because she's not like that: she's so much nobler. She insists all the more on the long engagement, to give me time—\"
\"Time to give her up for the other woman?\"
\"If I want to.\"
Madame Olenska leaned toward the fire and gazed into it with fixed eyes. Down the quiet street Archer heard the approaching trot of her horses.
\"That IS noble,\" she said, with a slight break in her voice.
