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Somewhat reluctantly she followed him into the room. He closed the door behind her, then swung round on his heel so that they stood fronting one another. At the sight of his face she recoiled a step in sheer nervous astonishment. It was a curious ashen-white, and from beneath drawn brows his hawk's eyes seemed positively to blaze at her. "Roger," she stammered, "what what is it?"
"Between you, you have forced me to marry you, but nobody can force me to obey you, because I won't." I saw his face grow paler and paler as I spoke, and when I had finished it was ashen-white. "So that's how it is, is it?" he said, and for some minutes more he tramped about the room, muttering inaudible words, as if trying to account to himself for my conduct.
He stood silent and she found his words for him. "You were Anne's lover?" "Yes." Her face changed before him, as it had changed an hour ago before Eliot, ashen-white and slack, quivering, suddenly old. Tears came into his eyes, tears of remorse and pity. She saw them and her heart ached for him. "It didn't last long," he said. "How long?" "From March till till September." "I remember."
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