act
noun
anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance.
Used to describe a continuous action that will progress up until a designated point of completion in the future.
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"And you hold that nevertheless, in the mean while, in listening to, say, my friend Hudson, she will have been acting in good faith?"
From Roderick Hudson by Henry James