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65 by thoughts like that. It’s much better for me to know that you would put the clock back, live it all over again. But about looking forward. Oh, Jack66, I think I shouldn’t look in the magic mirror if I had the chance. What if one saw oneself all alone? One would live in dread63 afterwards.’
‘Or what if you saw a cradle in the room?’ said I.
She looked up at me quickly, and then put out her hands for me to pull her up.
‘Perhaps I should look in the mirror,’ she said.{55}
Poor Legs, as he had said, left by a very early train next morning, and Helen, moved by a sudden violent attack of vague duty, went with him. The access was quite indeterminate. She thought merely that one ought to get back to town early on Monday, so as to have the whole day there instead of splitting it up. Personally I followed neither her reasoning nor example, and intended to spend the day in dignified67 inaction in the country, and not split it up by going to town till after dinner. But to the owner of a motor-car the train appears a degraded sort of business, and, greatly daring, I meant to start about nine in the evening, and be the monarch68 of the road; for when there is no other traffic, any car becomes a chariot of triumph. Helen, I may remark, loves our motor when she does not want to go anywhere particular. When she does she takes the train. I think, in fact, that it was my proposal that we should drive up together after dinner that was the direct parent of her sense of duty.
So, when I came down at the not unreasonable69 hour of nine to breakfast, I found that I had{56} the house to myself, and—I am not in the least ashamed of the confession—found that the prospect70 of an absolutely solitary71 day was quite to my mind. I do not believe myself to be unsociable or
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