"
"And you have actually no nervous desire to escape, no castings
around in your mind for an excuse to turn around and drive home?"
"No one could give a surer answer to your question than yourself.
I've been thinking of something pleasanter than my enjoyment."
"Well?"
"That your expression has been a very contented one during the
last hour. I am coming to believe that you can accept my
friendship without effort. You women are all such mysteries! One
gets hold of a clew now and then. I have fancied that if you had
started out in the spirit of self-sacrifice that I might have a
pleasant time, you would be more conscious of your purpose. Even
your tact might not have kept me from seeing that you were
exerting yourself; but the very genius of the day seems to possess
you. Nature is not exerting herself in the least. No breath of air
is stirring; all storms are in the past or the future. With a
smile on her face, she is just resting in serene content, as you
were, I hope. She is softening and obscuring everything distant by
an orange haze, so that the sunny present may be all the more
real.
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