The Age of Innocence



\"Yes. But it's ridiculous.\"

\"Ridiculous? Because you don't care for any one else?\"

\"Because I don't mean to marry any one else.\"

\"Ah.\" There was another long interval. At length she looked up at him and asked: \"This other woman—does she love you?\"

\"Oh, there's no other woman; I mean, the person that May was thinking of is—was never—\"

\"Then, why, after all, are you in such haste?\"

\"There's your carriage,\" said Archer.


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\"Yes. But it's ridiculous.\"

\"Ridiculous? Because you don't care for any one else?\"

\"Because I don't mean to marry any one else.\"

\"Ah.\" There was another long interval. At length she looked up at him and asked: \"This other woman—does she love you?\"

\"Oh, there's no other woman; I mean, the person that May was thinking of is—was never—\"

\"Then, why, after all, are you in such haste?\"

\"There's your carriage,\" said Archer.


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