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She shook her head again. "However the case stands _that_ isn't the truth. Whatever the reality, it _is_ a reality. The door isn't shut. The door's open," said May Bartram. "Then something's to come?" SHE SHOOK HER HEAD AGAIN HOWEVER THE CASE STANDS THAT ISN'T THE TRUTH WHATEVER THE REALITY IT IS A REALITY THE DOOR ISN'T SHUT THE DOOR'S OPEN SAID MAY BARTRAM THEN SOMETHING'S TO COME
always meant. It's different." "It's something new?" She hung back from it a little. "Something new. It's not what you think. I see what you think." His divination drew breath then; only her correction might be wrong. "It isn't that I _am_ a blockhead?" he asked between faintness and grimness. "It isn't that it's all a mistake?" "A mistake?" she pityingly echoed. _That_ possibility, for her, he saw, would be monstrous; and if she guaranteed him the immunity from pain it would accordingly not be what she had in mind. "Oh no," she declared; "it's nothing of that sort. You've been right." Yet he couldn't help asking himself if she weren't, thus pressed, speaking but to save him. It seemed to him he should be most in a hole if his history should prove all a platitude. "Are you telling me the truth, so that I shan't have been a bigger idiot than I can bear to know? I _haven't_ lived with a vain imagination, in the most besotted illusion? I haven't waited but to see the door shut in my face?  SHE AGAIN SHOOK HER HEAD WHAT I MEAN ISN'T WHAT I'VE ALWAYS MEANT IT'S DIFFERENT IT'S SOMETHING NEW SHE HUNG BACK FROM IT A LITTLE SOMETHING NEW IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK I SEE WHAT YOU THINK HIS DIVINATION DREW BREATH THEN ONLY HER CORRECTION MIGHT BE WRONG IT ISN'T THAT I AM A BLOCKHEAD HE ASKED BETWEEN FAINTNESS AND GRIMNESS IT ISN'T THAT IT'S ALL A MISTAKE A MISTAKE SHE PITYINGLY ECHOED THAT POSSIBILITY FOR HER HE SAW WOULD BE MONSTROUS AND IF SHE GUARANTEED HIM THE IMMUNITY FROM PAIN IT WOULD ACCORDINGLY NOT BE WHAT SHE HAD IN MIND OH NO SHE DECLARED IT'S NOTHING OF THAT SORT YOU'VE BEEN RIGHT YET HE COULDN'T HELP ASKING HIMSELF IF SHE WEREN'T THUS PRESSED SPEAKING BUT TO SAVE HIM IT SEEMED TO HIM HE SHOULD BE MOST IN A HOLE IF HIS HISTORY SHOULD PROVE ALL A PLATITUDE ARE YOU TELLING ME THE TRUTH SO THAT I SHAN'T HAVE BEEN A BIGGER IDIOT THAN I CAN BEAR TO KNOW I HAVEN'T LIVED WITH A VAIN IMAGINATION IN THE MOST BESOTTED ILLUSION I HAVEN'T WAITED BUT TO SEE THE DOOR SHUT IN MY FACE
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