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said at last. ‘If you only knew how heartily I despise myself
for loving you!’
‘That’s not a very nice thing to say to me,’ she replied
sulkily.
‘It isn’t,’ he laughed. ‘Let’s go to the Pavilion.’
‘That’s what’s so funny in you, you start laughing just
when one doesn’t expect you to. And if I make you that un-
happy why d’you want to take me to the Pavilion? I’m quite
ready to go home.’
‘Merely because I’m less unhappy with you than away
from you.’
‘I should like to know what you really think of me.’
He laughed outright.
‘My dear, if you did you’d never speak to me again.’