The Craze of Christina — page 218: what you’re looking at

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214 The Craze of Christina. Hall for us to go back to at all! It would be mine no longer.”’ ‘‘But I suppose that wretched woman who would get it couldn’t turn you out under three months’ notice, could she? she would have to get back from Australia first in any case, so that we could spend our honeymoon there,’’ and Chris gave his arm a gentle pressure as she spoke. But for once the magic of her touch scarcely thrilled him; for the first time she seemed to him less clever than he had always believed her tobe. Thespeech she had just uttered was the speech of a silly spoilt child, rather than the rational remark of a sensible and cultivated woman. He threw a quick glance into her face before he replied, and she read disapproval and doubt in his eyes; she had of course been prepared for that. “It is not like your clever and sensible self, Chris, to talk in that wild way. You know perfectly well that you are proposing impossi- bilities! it is cruel of you to do so! Granted that we were left in undisturbed possession of the house for a couple of months—which is far from certain—or that I were still allowed to draw upon an income that would no longer be mine, what would await us at the end of that (ecoynn elo) (00) KS (€(0)