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About which time Nancy had finished crying -- raging at herself all the time, she hated to cry so -- and was sitting up straight on the couch looking at the door which Oliver had shut as if by looking it very hard indeed she could make it turn into Oliver.
It _couldn't_ end this way. If it did it just meant that all the last year wasn't real -- hadn't any more part in reality than charity theatricals. And they'd both of them been so sure that it was the chief reality that they had ever known.