He would
get her to come to tea with him, usually in a pleasant tea-room over a fruit-shop
in Tottenham Court Road, and he would discuss his own point of view and hint
at a thousand devotions were she but to command him. There
could not, he decided, possibly be two girls so much alike. "
"Ah. Having made a tolerably good meal upon the loaf, overcome by fatigue, Jack
turned into a barn in Stoke Newington, and slept till late in the day, when he
awakened much refreshed. You creep
around in a nun’s habit, peering into a private ballroom. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. And it had not shocked her! It was this appalling absence of indignation that had
put terror into her heart. Does that boy live in
some sort of personal cave? Like, I think he might even
be thinking about asking you out again! That is what I
think.
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