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| 25 | 1466 | View more quotes about actually">Actually I had a rather clear idea what she was doing in this place. |
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| 25 | 1463 | She had probably never yet, in her life, felt a slave whip. |
| 25 | 1464 | "Perhaps you are wondering," she said, wiping away yet another supposed tear, "what I, a gentlewoman, of breeding and refinement, am doing in this place?" "Perhaps," I said, encouragingly. |
| 25 | 1465 | I tried to look puzzled. |
| 25 | 1466 | Actually I had a rather clear idea what she was doing in this place. |
| 25 | 1467 | She looked down. |
| 25 | 1468 | "I think the real reason," she said, "under everything, as you may have suspected, is that I was driven here, almost helplessly, a woman in desperate need of love, daring to enter this terrible place, but one where I knew men were, by my desire to meet a kindly man, by my loneliness". |
| 25 | 1469 | "Yes?" I said. |