It was after her talk to Mr. Magnus that she suddenly saw that
Martin Warlock was always in her thoughts, and then, because she was
Maggie and had never been deceitful to herself or to any one else,
she faced the fact and considered it. She knew that she was ignorant
of the world and of life, that she knew nothing about men and,
although she had many times fancied to herself what love must be
like, she did not tell herself now that it was love that had come to
her.
She saw him as a desirable companion; she thought that he would make
a most interesting friend; she would like to make her experiences of
life with him at her side. She would be free and he would be free,
but they would exchange confidences.
And then because she was very simple and had learnt nothing of the
difference between the things that decent girls might do and the
things they might not she began to consider the easiest way of
meeting him. She intended to go to him simply as one human being to
another and tell him that she liked him and hoped that they would
often see one another. There were no confused issues nor questions
of propriety before Maggie.
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