[The Prelude to Adventure by Hugh Walpole]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prelude to Adventure CHAPTER XII 18/33
. you _cannot_." And a voice answered: "All things betray Thee Who betrayest Me." "You have known us a very short time, Mr.Dune." Mrs.Craven's voice came to him from a great distance. He felt as though he were speaking to two persons.
"Time has nothing to do with falling in love, Mrs.Craven." He saw to his intense amazement that she was greatly moved.
She, who had always seemed to him a mask, now was suddenly revealed as suffering, tortured, intensely human.
Her thin white hands were pressed together. "I am a lonely, unhappy woman, Mr.Dune.Margaret is now all that is left to me.
Everything has been taken from me.
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