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You agree with me, I suppose, Lady Hermione, that your return to 1000 59th Street is out of the question ?" "It is, if this mock marriage is to serve any real purpose," she said.
"But pray remember that it is not a mock marriage.

You and I are as firmly bound together by the law as if--well, as if we meant it." She leaned forward a little; her face was etched in Rembrandt lights by the glare from some shop windows.
"Mr.Curtis," she said earnestly, "it is neither just nor reasonable that you should plunge yourself into difficulties for the sake of a girl whom you met to-night for the first time.

Why not go out of my life now--this instant?
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