Wood was unable to
discover the figure of the widow, but he recognised her dry, hacking cough, and
was about to call her down, if she could not find the key, as he imagined must be
the case, when a loud noise was heard, as though a chest, or some weighty
substance, had fallen upon the floor. The individual twist was always
there, even in the cleverest forgeries. At the first glance, he imagined he must have stumbled upon a museum of
rarities, there were so many glass-cases, so many open cabinets, ranged against
the walls; but the next convinced him that if Jonathan was a virtuoso, his tastes
did not run in the ordinary channels. Didn’t I say that this whole
business of your camping in Remenham House was the one aspect I could not
puzzle out?’
‘You are very clever, monsieur Gérard,’ she conceded, although Gerald was
amused by the grudging note, ‘but in truth it is not yet my house. Miss Stanley hesitated, and took first one and then another of the constituents
of this costume off its peg and surveyed it. But at last this ordeal was over, and Ramage opened the door. Or, if you were about to embark upon a
nautical career, here was all the information required. “But have you ever
thought that you might be attracting negative attention to
yourself by looking like you do? Like I said, don’t take it
personally. And son of a pig,’ she grunted, baring her teeth. She had carried a chair into the room veranda and had watched and listened until
the night silences had lengthened and only occasionally she heard a voice or the
rattle of rickshaw wheels in the courtyard. Most of them didn’t, anyhow. Wood, with a look meant to
reduce her supposed rival to the dust.
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