”
She assented, smiling. ’
‘Don’t be stuffy, Hilary,’ admonished his betrothed. Gerald saw her eyes change as she recognised him. Knowing the South
Seas from hearsay and by travel, he knew something of that inertia which
blunted the fineness, innate and acquired, of white men and women, the eternal
warfare against indifference and slovenliness. You are
somebody’s secretary, are you not?”
It was plain that the subject was distasteful to her, but Ennison, although famous
in a small way for his social tact, did not at once discard it. She was shifting, moving back. The Ralphs and Mannings and Fortescues came down upon the raw
inexperience, upon the blinking ignorance of the newcomer; and before her eyes
were fairly open, before she knew what had happened, a new set of guides and
controls, a new set of obligations and responsibilities and limitations, had
replaced the old. And the age gets higher. Impassive by nature and training, he was
conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by
a dull background of disappointment. .
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