She knew now the supreme
human energy which sent men to hell or carried them to their earthly heights. ‘Odds
were against it. “What a little brick!” he murmured. . “And then?” said Ann Veronica. He took his social
pleasures once a year in Hong-Kong, after Easter. He had come to Anna’s
rooms from a dinner party, and he was in evening dress. He sat down on the sill of the open window, folded his arms,
and stared straight before him for a long time over the wilderness of tiles and
chimney-pots into a sky that was blue and empty. ’
They moved to the door, while the lady shrugged, and then seated herself,
glancing from the window into the street below, and then turning again to watch
them in their huddle at the other side of the library. ‘You wound me to the heart,
Melusine. I can’t imagine
Londoners—particularly interested in me. Was
there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully
furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were
they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a
rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going
astray. Will you be a faithful and honest
wife? Will you do your duty by him, and forget all your past follies? Unless,
Annabel, you can——”
“Oh, I will pledge you my word,” Annabel cried passionately, “my solemn word. There were shadows
under his eyes.
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