Yet she might, after all, not have worried; and the
real climax was that he himself, at all events, needn't. "You'll
never find out."
CHAPTER III
It was all to have made, none the less, as I have said, a date;
which came out in the fact that again and again, even after long
intervals, other things that passed between them were in relation
to this hour but the character of recalls and results. Its
immediate effect had been indeed rather to lighten insistence--
almost to provoke a reaction; as if their topic had dropped by its
own weight and as if moreover, for that matter, Marcher had been
visited by one of his occasional warnings against egotism. He had
kept up, he felt, and very decently on the whole, his consciousness
of the importance of not being selfish, and it was true that he had
never sinned in that direction without promptly enough trying to
press the scales the other way. He often repaired his fault, the
season permitting, by inviting his friend to accompany him to the
opera; and it not infrequently thus happened that, to show he
didn't wish her to have but one sort of food for her mind, he was
the cause of her appearing there with him a dozen nights in the
month.
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