He had offered to escort the young lady to England where
she might seek refuge with her relations there, and proposed that the maid
Yolande might serve Miss Charvill. “Don’t!”
she said, weakly, as he had bent down and put one arm about her and seized her
hands with his disengaged hand and kissed her—kissed her almost upon her lips. ”
“To bad rubbish. ‘And since the entire company and Pottiswick himself were unable to
find hide nor hair of the infernal French female—’
‘English, Hilary,’ Gerald reminded him. ”
He drew a little nearer to her. Perhaps she
might never come back to that breakfast-room again. You were
only one room removed from the library, see. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth in paragraph
1. Her little bedsitting-room was like a lair, and she went out from it into this vast, dun world,
with its smoke-gray houses, its glaring streets of shops, its dark streets of homes,
its orange-lit windows, under skies of dull copper or muddy gray or black, much
as an animal goes out to seek food. What a pity!
For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the
physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had
seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet
instead of four—broken, without resilience. At
night she would turn it in her fingers like a rosary bead. She did not enter the cabin at once, but paused on the threshold and stared at the
silent, recumbent figure in the bunk. A friend of mine, Ogilvy’—I
suppose that’s Ogilvy & Ogilvy, who do so many divorces, Vee?—‘was
speaking very highly of it—very highly!’” He smiled into her eyes. ’
The shift threw Melusine’s attention off the errant major for the moment.
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