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After all, Susie was married before her eldest sister; for Aggie had to / wait till Arthur's salary rose. He thought it was going to rise at / midsummer, or if not at midsummer, then at Michaelmas. But midsummer and / Michaelmas passed, Christmas and Easter, too, and Arthur's salary showed / no sign of rising. He daren't tell Aggie that he had been obliged to leave / off reading Latin in the evenings, and was working feverishly at shorthand / in order to increase his efficiency. His efficiency increased, but not his / salary.
Meanwhile he spent all his holidays at Queningford, and Aggie had been / twice to town. They saw so little of each other that every meeting was a / divine event, a spiritual adventure. If each was not exactly an / undiscovered country to the other, there was always some territory left / over from last time, endlessly alluring to the pilgrim lover. Whenever / Arthur found in Aggie's mind a little bare spot that needed cultivating, / he planted there a picture or a poem, that instantly took root, and began / to bloom as it had never (to his eyes) bloomed in any other soil. Aggie, / for her part, yielded all the treasure of her little kingdom as tribute to / the empire that had won her.