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"Those busy subtle pronouns, I and Me, / Unsought and unexpected they appear; / No barriers heed they, and no laws revere; / But wind and penetrate, with dexterous force, / Through all the cracks and crannies of discourse. " / JANE TAYLOR.
JEAN, in her neat grey dress, and grey hat with grey ostrich feathers, sat near the window of the dull sitting-room, looking into the dull street. She was waiting for Oswald; waiting, not impatiently, but with a certain forlorn wistfulness. When she and Oswald made an appointment, a tacit understanding was always included that he would keep the appointment, should nothing more agreeable intervene, but that she would keep it in the face of all obstacles. So he could always be sure of Jean, and she could never be sure of Oswald.