The Craze of Christina — page 205: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina, 201 with me, but I never for a moment intended to fall in love with him!”’ ‘‘And you have fallen in love with him?”’ ‘Madly, desperately, idiotically! therefore, as a matter of course, lam going to marry him!’ “‘And wait three years till you can do so?”’ ‘“‘Three years! my dear child, I can’t wait three months! It will be with the greatest difficulty that I shall manage to wait three weeks!”’ *‘Well, I must say that you manage to con- ceal these ardent sentiments extremely cleverly! Tam sure Mr. Clifford doesn’t perceive for a moment that you are in such a desperate condi- tion of imbecility.”’ ‘‘Of course he doesn’t! Am Ia fool, do you . suppose, that I should allow him to perceive it? All the same I am going to become his wife in a month, or six weeks at latest. We shall be - married abroad and all three go home together to Esselton.”’ | ‘‘Unless you tell him who you are, he will not marry you. You will never get him to re- duce himself to beggary on your account.” “‘T gertainly shall not tell him who I am until Iam safely married to him; if I were to do go he is capable of walking himself off in a rage.”’ COMIGIOOKSEGO