”
She shrugged her shoulders. I
sat within a few feet of him. They were
both conscious, however, that something had intervened between them. Sure of foot, noiseless, he made the veranda and paused at the side of one of the
screened windows. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. The place to which you
went was not the English Embassy, and the whole performance was a fraud. I saw them both. Jack in all probability,
would have escaped, if Langley, who was left in the Lodge, had not been
alarmed at the noise and rushed thither. And one must—some of it must slip through
one’s fingers. He sat back in an easy chair with a hand upon each of the elbows,
and looked steadfastly into the fire. Sudden indignation boiled up in him. I could not love you else. 100
Long ago, in Greece and in Egypt, a woman of your
intelligence and beauty would have been elevated as soon
as she became an adult. She came with
such force that she feared he might be pushed out from
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the contractions, which did not happen.
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