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The Whirlpool

CHAPTER 5
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Until of late we never knew a difference, and the change that came was wholly my fault.
I hadn't the honesty to speak out and say what was in my mind.

I never openly opposed his wish to leave London.

I pretended to agree to everything, pretended.

He showed me all his reasons, put everything simply and plainly and kindly before me, and if I had said what I thought, I feel sure he would have given it up at once.

It was in my own hands to decide one way or the other.' 'Why should you reproach yourself so with mere thoughts, of which he never became aware ?' 'Oh, it was yesterday, when he came back from the City.


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