She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because …

Edith Wharton
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She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted. Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: She never asked me. ✨ Edith Wharton (2012). The Age of Innocence, p.231, Courier Corporation
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