And
on Monday and Tuesday she had failed to find him here. ’
‘Entirely English,’ said Gerald as one making a discovery. White is proud of her drawing-room evenings. “No! I want to do without that. ” She replied. It was your sister who
married Sir John Ferringhall the other day, wasn’t it?”
Anna nodded. The curtains which she had left drawn were open, and the
electric lights were turned on. "
"A short man, isn't he, about your height, Sir,—with a yellow beard, and a face
as sly as a fox's?"
"Hem!" replied Wood, coughing slightly to conceal a smile; "the description's
not amiss. He had
something across his knees. That is why they are permitted
to rush in where angels fear to tread—and survive their daring! This supreme
protection, this unwritten warranty to disregard all laws, occult or apparent,
divine or earthly, may be attributed to the fact that none but young fools dream
gloriously. Keeping to the shadow of the house, he crept forward until he
could see better without, he hoped, being seen. “Do you see why you cannot survive
in the world without me? The world is full of mundane
things, Lucia, but it is also full of terrible things. Indeed, it seemed inevitable that she must clear it up with his assistance, or
not at all. ‘If you had told
him that I would rather die than see him, he would not have come.
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