”
“You mean—you think——”
“Hush! I think that he was concealed in my room, and Annabel and he met there. I trust that no unpleasant rumours will be circulated
before the election, at any rate. Mike knocked on the door. It is the worst of talk under
such social circumstances that it is always getting cut off so soon as it is
beginning; and I went home that afternoon feeling I had said nothing—literally
nothing—of the things I had meant to say to you and that were coursing through
my head. She controlled herself, and answered meekly, “No. I thought about how insensitive my behavior was
and even though I don’t think that I was being antiSemitic on purpose, I can see how dumb I was being. Some friends who saw us dining together persist in
alluding to her as Miss Annabel Pellissier. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by
various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape
with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of
widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a
linsey-woolsey shawl. "
"Take time to consider of it," replied Wood sulkily, "there's no hurry. —I do not congratulate you on your success.
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