His grip twisted her wrist. Her clock had
stopped—stopped at the very hour on which she had quitted the Mint! She had
not the heart to wind it up again. "
"Be silent dog," cried Jonathan. ’
The couple on the sofa stared at her blankly. She did not know Mr. Manning, and glanced round
hastily for further horticultural points of interest in secluded corners. All other things were
without weight or consequence before the fact that this poor young man would
have to depend upon her for his life. She spent the morning up to ten in
writing a series of unsuccessful letters to Ramage, which she tore up unfinished;
and finally she desisted and put on her jacket and went out into the lamp-lit
obscurity and slimy streets. He had been gone entirely one day, for yesterday afternoon he had
departed from Remenham House, and she had waited with patience like a saint,
and now it was again the afternoon. What a pity!
For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the
physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had
seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet
instead of four—broken, without resilience. For a time they walked in silence. For a long time there had been a standing offer
from the company at Copeley's to take over the McClintock plantation; and today he had decided to sell. “I have brought you very nearly to my door. ‘That’s better,’ said Gerald, and let her go. He
never seemed to take full advantage while they were in his
mammoth automobile.
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