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Hermione dismissed Peppina quietly.
"Please don't say anything about this conversation, Peppina," she
said, as the agitated girl prepared to go. "Try to obey me this time,
will you?"
She spoke very kindly but very firmly.
"May the Madonna take out my tongue if I speak, Signora!" Peppina
raised her hand.
As she was going out Hermione stared at the cross upon her cheek.

CHAPTER XXVI
Artois stayed to dine. The falling of night deepened Hermione's
impression of the gulf which was now between them, and which she was
sure he knew of. When darkness comes to intimacy it seems to make that
intimacy more perfect. Now surely it caused reserve, restraint, to be
more complete. The two secrets which Hermione now knew, but which were
still cherished as secrets by Vere and Artois, stood up between the
mother and her child and friend, inexorably dividing them.
Hermione was strung up to a sort of nervous strength that was full of
determination. She had herself in hand, like a woman of the world who
faces society with the resolution to deceive it.


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