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| 1 | 547 | I View more quotes about might">might then, she having arrived, reveal my discomfiture to her, and explain, as I could, what I needed. |
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| 1 | 544 | My tone would be pleasant and social, and betray no inkling of my distress. |
| 1 | 545 | The matter should be as if no more than if I were thinking of her, and felt like chatting, which chat could then lead naturally to an invitation, and a proposed afternoon's outing. |
| 1 | 546 | We could meet at my apartment, perhaps for coffee, first. |
| 1 | 547 | I might then, she having arrived, reveal my discomfiture to her, and explain, as I could, what I needed. |
| 1 | 548 | If necessary, over the phone, though I trusted it would not be necessary, I might give her some sense of my earnestness. |
| 1 | 549 | I reached to the drawer of the night stand. |
| 1 | 550 | At that moment I cried out, startled, for the phone, placed before me on the carpet, rang. |