Manning would on no account do, though he was tall and dark and handsome and kind, and thirty-five and adequately prosperous, and all that a husband should be. Too late now. They had been playing tennis, with his manifest intention looming over her. ’ She shook her head sadly. It seemed at first the most beautiful afternoon of all time to her, and perhaps the thrill of her excitement did add a distinctive and culminating keenness to the day. If I were to marry you now I should feel a dependent being all my life—a sort of parasitical creature without blood or muscle. The spinsters—who on the morrow would vanish out of the girl's life for ever—had already left their imprint upon her imagination. Instinctively she knew—some human recollection she had inherited—that she must not disturb him in this man-agony. It had a tiny flaw, most bizarre. “What made you think” he said, abruptly, with the gleam of avidity in his face, “that love makes people happy?” “I know it must. Sheppard is Constance Trenchard," replied Jonathan, maliciously.
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