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you to make only business; it was in everything you did! You alone of all the world had made what I did a matter of your own pride and shame!"
"I cared, Lorine! I must have cared! I know—now—that I must always have cared!"
"But you did not know you cared; you could not understand it then. Oh, I saw! Somehow it had happened that out of all the world there was one person, and only one, who really cared for me. And yet I was more shut off from you than from anyone else, because you better than other one knew all the crazy things I had done. You—you could not think yourself in love with such a girl as—as you were sure I was! So then I—I had to do something that would make you sure!"
