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But
you
did
n't
tell
me
the
whole
truth
about
you
and
Knowles
,
did
you
?
Tell
me
truly
now
.
I
sha
'n'
t
mind
.
I
can
understand
well
enough
how
it
could
have
happened
.
It
does
n't
make
the
least
bit
of
difference
to
me
,
really
.
Stephanie
was
off
her
guard
for
once
,
in
no
truly
fencing
mood
.
She
was
troubled
at
times
about
her
various
relations
,
anxious
to
put
herself
straight
with
Cowperwood
or
with
any
one
whom
she
truly
liked
.
Compared
to
Cowperwood
and
his
affairs
,
Cross
and
Knowles
were
trivial
,
and
yet
Knowles
was
interesting
to
her
.
Compared
to
Cowperwood
,
Forbes
Gurney
was
a
stripling
beggar
,
and
yet
Gurney
had
what
Cowperwood
did
not
have
--
a
sad
,
poetic
lure
.
He
awakened
her
sympathies
.
He
was
such
a
lonely
boy
.
Cowperwood
was
so
strong
,
brilliant
,
magnetic
.
Perhaps
it
was
with
some
idea
of
clearing
up
her
moral
status
generally
that
she
finally
said
:
"
Well
,
I
did
n't
tell
you
the
exact
truth
about
it
,
either
.
I
was
a
little
ashamed
to
.
"
At
the
close
of
her
confession
,
which
involved
only
Knowles
,
and
was
incomplete
at
that
,
Cowperwood
burned
with
a
kind
of
angry
resentment
.
Why
trifle
with
a
lying
prostitute
?
That
she
was
an
inconsequential
free
lover
at
twenty-one
was
quite
plain
.
And
yet
there
was
something
so
strangely
large
about
the
girl
,
so
magnetic
,
and
she
was
so
beautiful
after
her
kind
,
that
he
could
not
think
of
giving
her
up
.
She
reminded
him
of
himself
.
"
Well
,
Stephanie
,
"
he
said
,
trampling
under
foot
an
impulse
to
insult
or
rebuke
and
dismiss
her
,
"
you
are
strange
.
Why
did
n't
you
tell
me
this
before
?
I
have
asked
and
asked
.
Do
you
really
mean
to
say
that
you
care
for
me
at
all
?
"
"
How
can
you
ask
that
?
"
she
demanded
,
reproachfully
,
feeling
that
she
had
been
rather
foolish
in
confessing
.
Perhaps
she
would
lose
him
now
,
and
she
did
not
want
to
do
that
.
Because
his
eyes
blazed
with
a
jealous
hardness
she
burst
into
tears
.
"
Oh
,
I
wish
I
had
never
told
you
!
There
is
nothing
to
tell
,
anyhow
.
I
never
wanted
to
.
"
Cowperwood
was
nonplussed
.
He
knew
human
nature
pretty
well
,
and
woman
nature
;
his
common
sense
told
him
that
this
girl
was
not
to
be
trusted
,
and
yet
he
was
drawn
to
her
.
Perhaps
she
was
not
lying
,
and
these
tears
were
real
.
"
And
you
positively
assure
me
that
this
was
all
--
that
there
was
n't
any
one
else
before
,
and
no
one
since
?
"
Stephanie
dried
her
eyes
.
They
were
in
his
private
rooms
in
Randolph
Street
,
the
bachelor
rooms
he
had
fitted
for
himself
as
a
changing
place
for
various
affairs
.
