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Grand news--what kind he wondered--and dully thought that he couldn't see
her, of course, and then suddenly knew that he must. After all, there
didn't seem to be much use in saving for the sake of saving when all the
saving you could possibly do didn't bring you one real inch nearer to what
you really wanted. _Apres moi le deluge--apres ca le deluge_--it might even
come to that this time, they were both so tired--and he viewed the prospect
as a man mortally hurt might view the gradual failing of sun and sky above
him, with hopelessness complete as a cloud in that sky, but with heart and
brain too beaten now to be surprised with either agony or fear. They must
see each other--they were neither of them quiet people who could love
forever at a distance without real hope. Great Lord, if he and Nancy could
ever have one definite basis to work on, one definite hope of money in the
future no matter how far off that was--But the present uncertainty--They
couldn't keep on like this--no two people in the world could be expected to
keep on.
Nancy. He is seeing Nancy, the way she half-lifts her head when she has
been teasing and suddenly becomes remorseful and wants him to know how much
she does love him instead.
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