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"They weren't to have started for another week." "Well, what then? Isn't our situation worth the little sacrifice? We'll go back to Rome as soon as you like WITH them." This seemed to hold her--as he had previously seen her held, just a trifle inscrutably, by his allusions to what they would do together on a certain contingency.
"Worth it, the little sacrifice, for whom? For us, naturally--yes," she said.
"We want to see them--for our reasons.
That is," she rather dimly smiled, "YOU do." "And you do, my dear, too!" he bravely declared.
"Yes then--I do too," she after an instant ungrudging enough acknowledged.
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