`` Yes , I 've heard it from a hundred mouths , more or less , '' he answered , not looking at her . `` It 's a splendid thing for me , is n't it ? '' dared Nora . `` Well , I do n't know , '' he said slowly . `` Looking at it from the outside , it seems so . But from the inside it may n't look the same . Do you think you 'll be able to cut twenty years of a life out of your heart without any pain ? '' `` Oh , I 'll be homesick , if that is what you mean , '' said Nora petulantly . `` Of course I 'll be that at first . I expect it -- but people get over that . And it is not as if I were going away for good . I 'll be back next summer -- every summer . '' `` It 'll be different , '' said Rob stubbornly , thinking as old Nathan Shelley had thought . `` You 'll be a fine lady -- oh , all the better for that perhaps -- but you 'll not be the same . No , no , the new life will change you ; not all at once , maybe , but in the end . You 'll be one of them , not one of us . But will you be happy ? That 's the question I 'm asking . '' In anyone else Nora would have resented this . But she never felt angry with Rob .
`` I think I shall be , '' she XXXXX thoughtfully .
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