This thing can't go on, and you know it as well as I do.
Nip it. Nip it now. Don't think that our intimacy is to end in any such
fashion as this, for it isn't--especially at this particular time."...
Lemoyne proceeded to practical matters. "If that room is still free, engage
it from the first of January. I will have a few things sent down. Father is
weakening a little. Anyhow, I've got enough money for a couple of months. I
will join you in Freeford between Christmas and New Year's (nearer the
latter, probably), and we will go back together."...
Cope rather took heart from these rough, outspoken lines. Lemoyne was
commonly neither rough nor outspoken; but here was an emergency, involving
his own interests, which must be dealt with decisively. Cope seemed to feel
salvation on the way. Perhaps that was why he still did so little to save
himself. He took the new room; he had one meeting with Amy; and he left for
home at least two days before he was strictly entitled to do so.
The meeting took place in Mrs. Phillips' drawing-room; he would trust
himself to no more strolls on the campus, to no more confabs in college
halls.
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