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The
way
he
put
it
was
that
unless
left
undisturbed
in
his
present
situation
he
would
be
in
no
position
to
marry
her
and
furthermore
could
not
possibly
do
anything
to
aid
her
at
the
coming
time
when
most
of
all
she
would
stand
in
need
of
aid
--
a
hint
which
caused
Roberta
to
reflect
on
a
hitherto
not
fully
developed
vein
of
hardness
in
Clyde
,
although
had
she
but
sufficiently
reflected
,
it
had
shown
itself
at
the
time
that
he
compelled
her
to
admit
him
to
her
room
.
In
addition
and
because
she
was
doing
nothing
and
yet
he
feared
that
at
any
moment
she
might
,
he
shifted
in
part
at
least
from
the
attitude
of
complete
indifference
,
which
had
availed
him
up
to
the
time
that
she
had
threatened
him
,
to
one
of
at
least
simulated
interest
and
good-will
and
friendship
.
For
the
very
precarious
condition
in
which
he
found
himself
was
sufficiently
terrifying
to
evoke
more
diplomacy
than
ever
before
had
characterized
him
.
Besides
he
was
foolish
enough
to
hope
,
if
not
exactly
believe
,
that
by
once
more
conducting
himself
as
though
he
still
entertained
a
lively
sense
of
the
problem
that
afflicted
her
and
that
he
was
willing
,
in
case
no
other
way
was
found
,
to
eventually
marry
her
(
though
he
could
never
definitely
be
persuaded
to
commit
himself
as
to
this
)
,
he
could
reduce
her
determination
to
compel
him
to
act
soon
at
least
to
a
minimum
,
and
so
leave
him
more
time
in
which
to
exhaust
every
possibility
of
escape
without
marriage
,
and
without
being
compelled
to
run
away
.
And
although
Roberta
sensed
the
basis
of
this
sudden
shift
,
still
she
was
so
utterly
alone
and
distrait
that
she
was
willing
to
give
ear
to
Clyde
's
mock
genial
,
if
not
exactly
affectionate
observations
and
suggestions
.
It
caused
her
,
at
his
behest
,
to
wait
a
while
longer
,
the
while
,
as
he
now
explained
,
he
would
not
only
have
saved
up
some
money
,
but
devised
some
plan
in
connection
with
his
work
which
would
permit
him
to
leave
for
a
time
anyhow
,
marry
her
somewhere
and
then
establish
her
and
the
baby
as
a
lawful
married
woman
somewhere
else
,
while
,
although
he
did
not
explain
this
just
now
,
he
returned
to
Lycurgus
and
sent
her
such
aid
as
he
could
.
But
on
condition
,
of
course
,
that
never
anywhere
,
unless
he
gave
her
permission
,
must
she
assert
that
he
had
married
her
,
or
point
to
him
in
any
way
as
the
father
of
her
child
.
Also
it
was
understood
that
she
,
as
she
herself
had
asserted
over
and
over
that
she
would
,
if
only
he
would
do
this
--
marry
her
--
take
steps
to
free
herself
on
the
ground
of
desertion
,
or
something
,
in
some
place
sufficiently
removed
from
Lycurgus
for
no
one
to
hear
.
And
that
within
a
reasonable
time
after
her
marriage
to
him
,
although
he
was
not
at
all
satisfied
that
,
assuming
that
he
did
marry
her
,
she
would
.
But
Clyde
,
of
course
,
was
insincere
in
regard
to
all
his
overtures
at
this
time
,
and
really
not
concerned
as
to
her
sincerity
or
insincerity
.
Nor
did
he
have
any
intention
of
leaving
Lycurgus
even
for
the
moderate
length
of
time
that
her
present
extrication
would
require
unless
he
had
to
.
For
that
meant
that
he
would
be
separated
from
Sondra
,
and
such
absence
,
for
whatever
period
,
would
most
definitely
interfere
with
his
plans
.
And
so
,
on
the
contrary
,
he
drifted
--
thinking
most
idly
at
times
of
some
possible
fake
or
mock
marriage
such
as
he
had
seen
in
some
melodramatic
movie
--
a
fake
minister
and
witnesses
combining
to
deceive
some
simple
country
girl
such
as
Roberta
was
not
,
but
at
such
expense
of
time
,
resources
,
courage
and
subtlety
as
Clyde
himself
,
after
a
little
reflection
,
was
wise
enough
to
see
was
beyond
him
.
Again
,
knowing
that
,
unless
some
hitherto
unforeseen
aid
should
eventuate
,
he
was
heading
straight
toward
a
disaster
which
could
not
much
longer
be
obviated
,
he
even
allowed
himself
to
dream
that
,
once
the
fatal
hour
was
at
hand
and
Roberta
,
no
longer
to
be
put
off
by
any
form
of
subterfuge
,
was
about
to
expose
him
,
he
might
even
flatly
deny
that
he
had
ever
held
any
such
relationship
with
her
as
then
she
would
be
charging
--
rather
that
at
all
times
his
relationship
with
her
had
been
that
of
a
department
manager
to
employee
--
no
more
.
Terror
--
no
less
!
But
at
the
same
time
,
early
in
May
,
when
Roberta
,
because
of
various
gestative
signs
and
ailments
,
was
beginning
to
explain
,
as
well
as
insist
,
to
Clyde
that
by
no
stretch
of
the
imagination
or
courage
could
she
be
expected
to
retain
her
position
at
the
factory
or
work
later
than
June
first
,
because
by
then
the
likelihood
of
the
girls
there
beginning
to
notice
something
,
would
be
too
great
for
her
to
endure
,
Sondra
was
beginning
to
explain
that
not
so
much
later
than
the
fourth
or
fifth
of
June
she
and
her
mother
and
Stuart
,
together
with
some
servants
,
would
be
going
to
their
new
lodge
at
Twelfth
Lake
in
order
to
supervise
certain
installations
then
being
made
before
the
regular
season
should
begin
.
And
after
that
,
not
later
than
the
eighteenth
,
at
which
time
the
Cranstons
,
Harriets
,
and
some
others
would
have
arrived
,
including
very
likely
visits
from
Bella
and
Myra
,
he
might
expect
a
week-end
invitation
from
the
Cranstons
,
with
whom
,
through
Bertine
,
she
would
arrange
as
to
this
.
And
after
that
,
the
general
circumstances
proving
fairly
propitious
,
there
would
be
,
of
course
,
other
week-end
invitations
to
the
Harriets
'
,
Phants
'
and
some
others
who
dwelt
there
,
as
well
as
to
the
Griffiths
'
at
Greenwood
,
to
which
place
,
on
account
of
Bella
,
he
could
easily
come
.
And
during
his
two
weeks
'
vacation
in
July
,
he
could
either
stop
at
the
Casino
,
which
was
at
Pine
Point
,
or
perhaps
the
Cranstons
or
Harriets
,
at
her
suggestion
,
might
choose
to
invite
him
.
At
any
rate
,
as
Clyde
could
see
,
and
with
no
more
than
such
expenditures
as
,
with
a
little
scrimping
during
his
ordinary
working
days
here
,
he
could
provide
for
,
he
might
see
not
a
little
of
that
lake
life
of
which
he
had
read
so
much
in
the
local
papers
,
to
say
nothing
of
Sondra
at
one
and
another
of
the
lodges
,
the
masters
of
which
were
not
so
inimical
to
his
presence
and
overtures
as
were
Sondra
's
parents
.
For
now
it
was
,
and
for
the
first
time
,
as
she
proceeded
to
explain
to
him
that
her
mother
and
father
,
because
of
his
continued
and
reported
attentions
to
her
,
were
already
beginning
to
talk
of
an
extended
European
tour
which
might
keep
her
and
Stuart
and
her
mother
abroad
for
at
least
the
next
two
years
.
