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Show 118 she been successful, hiding them from him? For after all, wasn't he sitting across the table from her now? Evidently, she thought, she had not admitted it to herself before-consciously come to terms with it- because to do so would have changed her response to him at the time, would have driven him away. But now, again, he was suddenly attractive to her. Exciting. A handsome, witty young man who was to accompany her to a cultural event - a play, which, in fact, she really wanted to see after hearing the plot from him. Why was it that now-after she had admitted to herself that she would never be his wife, that he would never be her husband-why now should Roger suddenly be so attractive to her? |