May Batram was curious and inquisitive of Marcher's thought, a curiosity that turned into loyal love for Marcher. When Marcher had first met May it had been in Naples, though to his recollection it had been Rome. May put him in the right and he "accepted her amendments, enjoyed her corrections," (407). He was holding her in high regard now as he had ten years prior when he told her of his secret. This secret was one quoted from Marcher by May as from "(his) earliest time, as the deepest thing within (him), the sense of being kept for something rare and strange, possibly te

For years May and Marcher used themselves to look normal, and May often remarked, "What saves us, you know, is that we answer so completely to so usual an appearance: that of a man and a woman whose friendship has become such a daily habit, or almost, as to be at last indispensable" (420). As the years crept by May and Marcher constantly see each other still waiting and watching for what was never to occur on it's own. On such a visit they got to discussing the situation of themselves and of the apparent lack of a catastrophe. Marcher, concerned that May had wasted her interests on nothing, commented that, "Doesn't it sometimes come to you, as time goes on, that you curiosity is not being particularly repaid?" (421). This was the day May told him her watch was over and her curiosity satisfied. When he asked if it was all over, the end of their watch she said, "this is not the end of our watch. That is it isn't the end of yours. You have everything still to see" (424). Marcher !

May had an eagerness for knowledge in her younger years with the aim of witnessing Marcher's disaster. Throughout ten years of not seeing each other May remembered and quoted Joh

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