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The Great Threshold! Her heart beat faster as she contemplated it. She wondered in what fashion the married women she knew had stepped across it��gaily, impulsively, with reckless abandonment, with inward shrinking, with cool deliberation��how? La Rochefoucauld once said, ��Some ladies may be met with who never had any intrigue at all, but it will be exceedingly hard to find any who have had one and no more,�� but then, he was only a maxim-monger, and the making of maxims, like the making of epigrams, is only a trick. If she crossed it, there would only be Frank. They would love one another secretly, and the stolen hours together would make her barren life more tolerable. Jack had made out that liaisons were nothing more than licentious flirtations. If two people really loved[282]����

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��I must see you, old girl, so I��m coming down for the week-end, and, like the improper female your mother-in-law thinks me (Oh! what would she think of a really improper female? But there, I suppose really improper females can��t afford to behave improperly, they have to prune and prism), I have taken rooms at the Three Compasses Inn in the village. They��ve got a ducky room��it looks out on the duck-pond and they will quack me a matutinal lay��which I investigated last time I came down to see you for the day. Socky shall chase the ducks, and I��ll eat any he kills, or send them, with his compliments, to Lady Currey. But I must see you. I��ve been keeping a secret from you for some time, and I��m nearly dead of spontaneous combustion. Perhaps it��s too late and you��ll only find a coat and skirt��the other lingerie oddments would, I��m sure, be combusted, too��when you meet the 1.15 train. It��s a great, great secret, but everything is settled now. Colin will come down for the day on Sunday and help to eat one of the ducks. Now curiosity shall smoulder in thee!