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Quotation from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
“The escape would have been to love her; then, _then_ he would have lived”
The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter VI (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093))
Marcher understands that May offered him the chance to escape his doom and that he failed to see it.
Citation: "The escape would have been to love her; then, _then_ he would have lived" — Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter VI (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093)). (id henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle-q10)
