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But the boatman
rowed slowly, influenced by the scirocco.
How, then, was Hermione to live? How was she to find happiness or
peace? It was a problem which he debated with an ardor that had in it
something of passion. And he began to wonder how it would have been if
he had acted differently, if he had allowed her to find out what he
suspected to be the exact truth of the dead man. Long ago he had saved
her from suffering. But by doing so had he not dedicated her, not to a
greater, but to a longer suffering? He might have defiled a beautiful
memory. He must have done so had he acted differently. But if he had
defiled it, might not Hermione have been the subject of a great
revulsion? Horror can kill, but it can also cure. It can surely root
out love. But from such a heart as Hermione's?
Despite all his understanding of women, Artois felt at a loss to-day.
He could not make up his mind what would have been the effect upon
Hermione if she had learned that her husband had betrayed her.


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