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"I tell you no," she repeated.

"Who knows but my husband may be watching me! What a complication for my divorce if he should surprise us in your house!" Now it was he who eulogized the husband, insisting that such watchfulness was incompatible with his character.

The engineer had accepted the facts, considering them irreparable and was now thinking only of reconstructing his life.
"No, it is better for us to separate," she continued.

"Tomorrow we shall see each other again.

You will hunt a more favorable place.