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Whatever Madame de Malrive's answer was to be, there could be no doubt as to her readiness to listen. She received Durham's words without sign of resistance, and took time to ponder them gently before she answered in a voice touched by emotion: "You are very generous -- very unselfish; but when you fix a limit -- no matter how remote -- to my remaining here, I see how wrong it is to let myself consider for a moment such possibilities as we have been talking of."
"Wrong? Why should it be wrong?"