It had been discussed in silence. In the struggle the pistol went off,
but without damage to either party. What right had a young woman to possess
the scarring and intimate knowledge of that dreg of human society, the
beachcomber?
CHAPTER II
Ah Cum lived at No. ’
‘Lord,’ Gerald murmured, awed more by the outspokenness of his hostess than
by what she had said. We begin rehearsing on Monday at the ‘Garrick’. From where had he come, and why? An author! To her he would be no less
interesting because he was unsuccessful. He did not particularly care. There's another lad at the gate waiting for him—the same who
was here just now, that Sir Rowland was speaking of, who fastened up the jewelcase for her ladyship. But he knew. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. Fool that I was to part with my
lantern! But I'll soon set myself straight. ‘I begin to ask myself why it is that I
wish to become of these people. How am I supposed to rent an apartment when I cannot
legally buy cigarettes? I couldn’t use you.
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