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And
although
there
was
some
other
discussion
to
the
same
effect
,
the
conclusion
of
this
very
difficult
hour
was
that
Clyde
had
another
week
or
two
at
best
in
which
to
see
if
he
could
find
a
physician
or
any
one
who
would
assist
him
.
After
that
--
well
after
that
the
implied
,
if
not
openly
expressed
,
threat
which
lay
at
the
bottom
of
this
was
,
unless
so
extricated
and
speedily
,
that
he
would
have
to
marry
her
,
if
not
permanently
,
then
at
least
temporarily
,
but
legally
just
the
same
,
until
once
again
she
was
able
to
look
after
herself
--
a
threat
which
was
as
crushing
and
humiliating
to
Roberta
as
it
was
torturing
to
him
.
Opposing
views
such
as
these
,
especially
where
no
real
skill
to
meet
such
a
situation
existed
,
could
only
spell
greater
difficulty
and
even
eventual
disaster
unless
chance
in
some
form
should
aid
.
And
chance
did
not
aid
.
And
the
presence
of
Roberta
in
the
factory
was
something
that
would
not
permit
him
to
dismiss
it
from
his
mind
.
If
only
he
could
persuade
her
to
leave
and
go
somewhere
else
to
live
and
work
so
that
he
should
not
always
see
her
,
he
might
then
think
more
calmly
.
For
with
her
asking
continuously
,
by
her
presence
if
no
more
,
what
he
intended
to
do
,
it
was
impossible
for
him
to
think
.
And
the
fact
that
he
no
longer
cared
for
her
as
he
had
,
tended
to
reduce
his
normal
consideration
of
what
was
her
due
.
He
was
too
infatuated
with
,
and
hence
disarranged
by
his
thoughts
of
Sondra
.
For
in
the
very
teeth
of
this
grave
dilemma
he
continued
to
pursue
the
enticing
dream
in
connection
with
Sondra
--
the
dark
situation
in
connection
with
Roberta
seeming
no
more
at
moments
than
a
dark
cloud
which
shadowed
this
other
.
And
hence
nightly
,
or
as
often
as
the
exigencies
of
his
still
unbroken
connection
with
Roberta
would
permit
,
he
was
availing
himself
of
such
opportunities
as
his
flourishing
connections
now
afforded
.
Now
,
and
to
his
great
pride
and
satisfaction
,
it
was
a
dinner
at
the
Harriets
'
or
Taylors
'
to
which
he
was
invited
;
or
a
party
at
the
Finchleys
'
or
the
Cranstons
'
,
to
which
he
would
either
escort
Sondra
or
be
animated
by
the
hope
of
encountering
her
.
And
now
,
also
without
so
many
of
the
former
phases
or
attempts
at
subterfuge
,
which
had
previously
characterized
her
curiosity
in
regard
to
him
,
she
was
at
times
openly
seeking
him
out
and
making
opportunities
for
social
contact
.
And
,
of
course
,
these
contacts
being
identical
with
this
typical
kind
of
group
gathering
,
they
seemed
to
have
no
special
significance
with
the
more
conservative
elders
.
For
although
Mrs.
Finchley
,
who
was
of
an
especially
shrewd
and
discerning
turn
socially
,
had
at
first
been
dubious
over
the
attentions
being
showered
upon
Clyde
by
her
daughter
and
others
,
still
observing
that
Clyde
was
more
and
more
being
entertained
,
not
only
in
her
own
home
by
the
group
of
which
her
daughter
was
a
part
,
but
elsewhere
,
everywhere
,
was
at
last
inclined
to
imagine
that
he
must
be
more
solidly
placed
in
this
world
than
she
had
heard
,
and
later
to
ask
her
son
and
even
Sondra
concerning
him
.
But
receiving
from
Sondra
only
the
equivocal
information
that
,
since
he
was
Gil
and
Bella
Griffiths
'
cousin
,
and
was
being
taken
up
by
everybody
because
he
was
so
charming
--
even
if
he
did
n't
have
any
money
--
she
could
n't
see
why
she
and
Stuart
should
not
be
allowed
to
entertain
him
also
,
her
mother
rested
on
that
for
the
time
being
--
only
cautioning
her
daughter
under
no
circumstances
to
become
too
friendly
.
And
Sondra
,
realizing
that
in
part
her
mother
was
right
,
yet
being
so
drawn
to
Clyde
was
now
determined
to
deceive
her
,
at
least
to
the
extent
of
being
as
clandestinely
free
with
Clyde
as
she
could
contrive
.
And
was
,
so
much
so
that
every
one
who
was
privy
to
the
intimate
contacts
between
Clyde
and
Sondra
might
have
reported
that
the
actual
understanding
between
them
was
assuming
an
intensity
which
most
certainly
would
have
shocked
the
elder
Finchleys
,
could
they
have
known
.
For
apart
from
what
Clyde
had
been
,
and
still
was
dreaming
in
regard
to
her
,
Sondra
was
truly
being
taken
with
thoughts
and
moods
in
regard
to
him
which
were
fast
verging
upon
the
most
destroying
aspects
of
the
very
profound
chemistry
of
love
.
Indeed
,
in
addition
to
handclasps
,
kisses
and
looks
of
intense
admiration
always
bestowed
when
presumably
no
one
was
looking
,
there
were
those
nebulous
and
yet
strengthening
and
lengthening
fantasies
concerning
a
future
which
in
some
way
or
other
,
not
clear
to
either
as
yet
,
was
still
always
to
include
each
other
.
Summer
days
perhaps
,
and
that
soon
,
in
which
he
and
she
would
be
in
a
canoe
at
Twelfth
Lake
,
the
long
shadows
of
the
trees
on
the
bank
lengthening
over
the
silvery
water
,
the
wind
rippling
the
surface
while
he
paddled
and
she
idled
and
tortured
him
with
hints
of
the
future
;
a
certain
forest
path
,
grass-sodden
and
sun-mottled
to
the
south
and
west
of
the
Cranston
and
Phant
estates
,
near
theirs
,
through
which
they
might
canter
in
June
and
July
to
a
wonderful
view
known
as
Inspiration
Point
some
seven
miles
west
;
the
country
fair
at
Sharon
,
at
which
,
in
a
gypsy
costume
,
the
essence
of
romance
itself
,
she
would
superintend
a
booth
,
or
,
in
her
smartest
riding
habit
,
give
an
exhibition
of
her
horsemanship
--
teas
,
dances
in
the
afternoon
and
in
the
moonlight
at
which
,
languishing
in
his
arms
,
their
eyes
would
speak
.
None
of
the
compulsion
of
the
practical
.
None
of
the
inhibitions
which
the
dominance
and
possible
future
opposition
of
her
parents
might
imply
.
Just
love
and
summer
,
and
idyllic
and
happy
progress
toward
an
eventual
secure
and
unopposed
union
which
should
give
him
to
her
forever
.
And
in
the
meantime
,
in
so
far
as
Roberta
was
concerned
,
two
more
long
,
dreary
,
terrifying
months
going
by
without
that
meditated
action
on
her
part
which
must
result
once
it
was
taken
in
Clyde
's
undoing
.
For
,
as
convinced
as
she
was
that
apart
from
meditating
and
thinking
of
some
way
to
escape
his
responsibility
,
Clyde
had
no
real
intention
of
marrying
her
,
still
,
like
Clyde
,
she
drifted
,
fearing
to
act
really
.
For
in
several
conferences
following
that
in
which
she
had
indicated
that
she
expected
him
to
marry
her
,
he
had
reiterated
,
if
vaguely
,
a
veiled
threat
that
in
case
she
appealed
to
his
uncle
he
would
not
be
compelled
to
marry
her
,
after
all
,
for
he
could
go
elsewhere
.
