How could you draw the curtain aside which hides the great and holy places of
life—you, who have never loved?”
“You have become French to the core,” she murmured. John stared palely. His glance came up again and met hers. The reddish-haired
young man contributed allusions to the Hegelian philosophy that momentarily
confused the discussion. ‘But if there is
one, how in the world did this mystery lady of yours know of it?’
‘That, Lucy, is precisely the point that has been exercising my mind,’ Gerald
said, turning his eyes once more to the group of French exiles in the alcove. “The truth!” It was a moment of awkwardness between the two sisters
—a moment, too, charged with its own psychological interest, for there were
secrets between them which for many months had made their intercourse a
constrained and difficult thing. Fetter Lane, on the left, Gray's Inn, on
the right, added their supplies. ”
“I can’t work. Only one thing emerged with
any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was
saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is
unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a
trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage
was an experience to be strenuously evaded. "He is," replied a portly personage, arrayed in a gorgeous yellow brocade
dressing-gown, lined with cherry-coloured satin, and having a crimson velvet
cap, surmounted by a gold tassel, on his head. ” His rhythm slowed to a grind.
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