Nothing!"

Yes. But that isn't all. He said--"

Your specialist in Tact?"

Yes. He said it would be better for you, better for all the giants, if

we two--abstained from conversation. That was how he put it."

But what can they do if we don't?"

He said you might have your freedom."

I!"

He said, with a stress, 'My dear young lady, it would be better, it

would be more dignified, if you parted, willingly.' That was all he

said. With a stress on willingly."

But--! What business is it of these little wretches, where we love, how

we love? What have they and their world to do with us?"

They do not think that."

Of course," he said, "you disregard all this."

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