For the first time in her life she
had heard music; the door to enchanted sounds had been flung wide. “I suppose you’re like the rest
of them. Dizzily, she
grabbed at the mantel for support and, resting her head on her hands, paid no
heed to a betraying sound behind her—until an unexpected arm encircled her. With the broken links of the chain, which served
him in lieu of more efficient implements, he commenced operations just above
the chimney-piece, and soon contrived to pick a hole in the plaster. The threadbare remainders of
the dinner discussion hovered over the topics of
obsessive fans of the science fiction and horror genres. Instinctively she knew—some human recollection she had inherited—that
she must not disturb him in this man-agony. ”
“I’m not surprised at it. ’ Then
he bowed, raising his hat in salute and, crossing to the coach, spoke briefly to its
driver and leapt into it without looking back. By the time he had reached the summit of this hill, he had lost all trace of them;
and the ardour of the chase having in some measure subsided, he began to
reproach himself for his folly, in having wandered—as he conceived—so far out
of his course. ”
“Tell me about yourself,” said Ann Veronica. ”
“Don’t say that,” Sydney begged. It isn’t all. Scissors with which to cut her hair, just in case. Why shouldn’t we be martyrs? There’s nothing else for most of us, anyhow. Stories … love stories: and to-morrow
she would know the joy of reading them! It was almost unbelievable; it was too
good to be true.
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