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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: out-of-the-way streets with men. Why couldn't you have seen him
here?"
She hesitated. "Because he wanted to see me alone."
"Did he, indeed? And may I ask if you gratify all his wishes with
equal alacrity?"
"I don't know that he has any others where I am concerned." She
paused again and then continued, in a lower voice that somehow had
an under-note of warning. "He wished to bid me good-by. He's
going away."
Glennard turned on her a startled glance. "Going away?"
"He's going to Europe to-morrow. He goes for a long time. I
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