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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.’
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