Those are all nice things, but it’s not what I want. But the world didn’t do that. “Monsieur admires the poster?”
As a rule Sir John treated such advances with cold silence. It will not cost you more than six
hundred to reach your destination. “My dear friend,” she laughed, “not so tragic, if you please. Scarcely any one noticed the full measure of her consternation. Yet every now and then, during
the progress of the meal, his attention apparently wandered, and leaning forward
he glanced covertly at Anna with a curious mixture of expressions on his face. She knew the significance:
the red corpuscle was being burnt out by the fires of alcohol. There was first the Avenue,
which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an
undeveloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick villas on either
side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the postoffice, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. ’
‘I like that,’ Gerald protested. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. “If you think it worth while,” she answered doubtfully.
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