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“If you ever come to care at all,” he said, “you’ll care enough.”

“That is the trouble with you,” she retorted, “you don’t care enough.”

A slight flush stained his cheek-bones: “Sometimes,” he said, “I almost wish I cared less. And that would be what you call enough.”

Colour came into her face, too:

“Do you know, Jim, I really don’t know how much I do care for you? It sounds rather silly, doesn’t it?”

“Do you care more than you did at first?”

“Yes.”

“Much more?”

“I told you I don’t know how much.”