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wonderfully, too, only for somebody else?" He appeared to make a point of this, and little Bilham looked at him now. "When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them." Then he threw off as with an extravagance of which he was conscious: "Let them face the future together!"
"You mean that, after all, he shouldn't go back?"
"I mean that if he gives her up———!"
"Yes?"
"Well, he ought to be ashamed of himself." But Strether spoke with a sound that might have passed for a laugh.
