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Mary forced herself to go on. "This is how I've worked it out, Joe! I said to meself, ‘Ye love this man; and it's his love ye want -- nothin' else! If he's got a place in the world, ye'd only hold him back -- and ye'd not want to do that. Ye don't want his name, or his friends, or any of those things -- ye want him! ' Have ye ever heard of such a thing as that?"
Her cheeks were flaming, but she continued to meet his gaze. "Yes, I've heard of it," he answered, in a low voice.