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"I never said," May Bartram replied, "that it hadn't made me a good deal talked about." "Ah well then you're not 'saved.'" "It hasn't been a question for me. If you've had your woman I've had," she said, "my man." I NEVER SAID MAY BARTRAM REPLIED THAT IT HADN'T MADE ME A GOOD DEAL TALKED ABOUT AH WELL THEN YOU'RE NOT SAVED IT HASN'T BEEN A QUESTION FOR ME IF YOU'VE HAD YOUR WOMAN I'VE HAD SHE SAID MY MAN
ittle supper that awaited his pleasure. His point was made, he thought, by his not eternally insisting with her on himself; made for instance, at such hours, when it befell that, her piano at hand and each of them familiar with it, they went over passages of the opera together. It chanced to be on one of these occasions, however, that he reminded her of her not having answered a certain question he had put to her during the talk that had taken place between them on her last birthday. "What is it that saves _you_?"--saved her, he meant, from that appearance of variation from the usual human type. If he had practically escaped remark, as she pretended, by doing, in the most important particular, what most men do--find the answer to life in patching up an alliance of a sort with a woman no better than himself--how had she escaped it, and how could the alliance, such as it was, since they must suppose it had been more or less noticed, have failed to make her rather positively talked about? THE FRUGAL BUT ALWAYS CAREFUL LITTLE SUPPER THAT AWAITED HIS PLEASURE HIS POINT WAS MADE HE THOUGHT BY HIS NOT INTERNALLY INSISTING WITH HER ON HIMSELF MADE FOR INSTANCE AT SUCH HOURS WHEN IT BEFELL THAT HER PIANO AT HAND AND EACH OF THEM FAMILIAR WITH IT THEY WENT OVER PASSAGES OF THE OPERA TOGETHER IT CHANCED TO BE ON ONE OF THESE OCCASIONS HOWEVER THAT HE REMINDED HER OF HER NOT HAVING ANSWERED A CERTAIN QUESTION HE HAD PUT TO HER DURING THE TALK THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE BETWEEN THEM ON HER LAST BIRTHDAY WHAT IS IT THAT SAVES YOU SAVED HER HE MEANT FROM THAT APPEARANCE OF VARIATION FROM THE USUAL HUMAN TYPE IF HE HAD PRACTICALLY ESCAPED REMARK AS SHE PRETENDED BY DOING IN THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTICULAR WHAT MOST MEN DO FIND THE ANSWER TO LIFE IN PATCHING UP AN ALLIANCE OF A SORT WITH A WOMAN NO BETTER THAN HIMSELF HOW HAD SHE ESCAPED IT AND HOW COULD THE ALLIANCE SUCH AS IT WAS SINCE THEY MUST SUPPOSE IT HAD BEEN MORE OR LESS NOTICED HAVE FAILED TO MAKE HER RATHER POSITIVELY TALKED ABOUT
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