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Then
she laid the book down and looked at the clock. It was nearly four.
Tea would perhaps refresh her. And after tea? She had loved the
island, but to-day she felt almost as if it were a prison. What was
there to be done? She found herself wondering for the first time how
she had managed to "get through" week after week there. And in a
moment her wonder made her realize the inward change in her, the
distance that now divided her from Vere, the gulf that lay between
them.
A day with a stranger may seem long, but a month with a friend how
short! To live with Vere had been like living with a part of herself.
But now what would it be like? And when Emile came, and they three
were together?
When Hermione contemplated that reunion, she felt that it would be to
her intolerable. And yet she desired it. For she wanted to know
something, and she was certain that if she, Vere, and Emile could be
together, without any fourth person, she would know it.
A little while ago, when she had longed for bracing action, she had
resolved to ask Emile to meet the Marchesino.


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