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She reflected , then she said that she could n't . ` Well , ' said Gerald , ` I think it 's because I did n't go to meet her at Liverpool ; from something she said , I think it 's that . But I never dreamed she 'd mind , you know . And , really , I ask you , Helen , is it reasonable to expect a man to give up a long-standing engagement and take that dreary journey up to that dreary place -- I 've never seen the Liverpool docks , but I can imagine them at six o'clock in the morning -- is it reasonable , I say , to expect that of any man ? It was n't as if I was n't to see her the next day . ' Again Helen carefully considered . ` I suppose she found the docks very dreary -- at six o'clock , ' she suggested .