The crowning aspect of the incident, for her mind, was
the discovery that he and her indiscretion with him no longer mattered very
much. "
The lad made no answer, but left the room. His job as a
painter was wearing him down acutely as he aged. ”
“You forget,” she said, looking up at him with a faint smile, “that under the cloak
of her name I am earning more money a week than I could ever have earned in a
year by my own labours. I would love to think of how
beautiful your children will be!”
“I want to be with you. Whether it was the nun’s habit or the
harlot’s clothing that distressed her more, he could not begin to guess. Long before religion and Society heard of Doubt, girls were all for
midnight coaches and Gretna Green. ”
He came towards her with that in his face which filled her with blind terror. ’
‘Yes, I know,’ Gerald put in with an irrepresssible chuckle. Most of their
relics are in yonder cases; but I don't remember that any of them have disturbed
my rest. ”
She looked thoughtfully into the fire.
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