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He stopped, looking at her white face. Suddenly he came and kissed her
and the little face that nestled against her breast.
"It's all right, dear," he said, standing over her; "you won't be lonely
now--now Dings is beginning to talk to you. And I can soon get something
to do, you know. Soon.... Easily.... It's only a shock at first. But it
will come all right. It's sure to come right. I will go out again as
soon as I have rested, and find what can be done. For the present it's
hard to think of anything...."
"It would be hard to leave these rooms," said Elizabeth; "but----"
"There won't be any need of that--trust me."
"They are expensive."
Denton waved that aside. He began talking of the work he could do. He
was not very explicit what it would be; but he was quite sure that there
was something to keep them comfortably in the happy middle class, whose
way of life was the only one they knew.
"
There are three-and-thirty million people in London," he said: "some of
them must have need of me."
"Some must."
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