‘The past is sometimes a very good place to live.’
‘One can’t go back. That’s the one thing one can’t do—go back.’
He was silent for a minute or two. Then he said in a quiet, pleasant and quite unemotional voice:
‘What you really mean is that you won’t marry me because of John Christow?’
Henrietta did not answer, and Edward went on:
‘That’s it, isn’t it? If there were no John Christow in the world you would marry me.’
Henrietta said harshly, ‘I can’t imagine a world in which there was no John Christow! That’s what you’ve got to understand.’
‘If it’s like that, why on earth doesn’t the fellow get a divorce from his wife and then you could marry?’
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