Retreating as quickly as he could,
Jack opened the first door he came to, entered a room, and searching in the dark
for some place of concealment, fortunately discovered a skreen, behind which he
crept. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. Basically a kindly man but made cynical and derisive by sordid contacts,
O'Higgins had almost forgotten that there was such a thing as unselfishness. Her knees were trembling, her whole frame
was shaken with sobs. This is her first adventure. But to England we will go. ‘This is not love, Marthe. She wondered even at this late
day how she had been able to hold her maddening curiosity in check. Why do you think I’m indulging in all this
very un-English love talk?’
‘But you are idiot, Gérard. Well, I don't think they'll any of 'em nab him, that's one comfort. ”
Suppose in some complex yet conceivable way women were endowed, were no
longer economically and socially dependent on men. Some of the lunatics were rattling their chains; some
shrieking; some singing; some beating with frantic violence against the doors. I want to know—just as much as I can. . ’
‘Yes, it’s all my fault,’ he agreed soothingly, ‘and you may rail at me presently
as much as you please.
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