“I don’t see why I should take it secondhand. That paper
must be signed, or I take my departure. He thrust out a rhetorical hand. What does she look like?’
‘Black hair. “All right?” he asked. He was a civil servant of some
standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious,
nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he
described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather
carefully finished verse. ”
“You mean to say,” Anna said slowly, “that you are going to leave your
husband?”
“Yes. The first Step towards the Ladder. I am out of your life forever, never having been in it. He was
perhaps forty-five years of age. Les Misérables, A Tale of Two Cities, Henry Esmond, The Last Days of
Pompeii, The Marble Faun … Love stories!
Until her arrival in Singapore, she had never read a novel. ‘He was very kind to me.
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