“We settled long ago—we’re
hard stuff. ”
He sat like a man turned to stone. You are—or rather you were——” he corrected
himself with an unpleasant little laugh, “Miss Pellissier, eh?”
A little sensation followed upon his words. S. The same night he met Meddoes and Drummond together, the latter over from
Paris on a week’s leave from the Embassy. He walked through the misty September night to his rooms. Love stories! It was of negligible importance that
these books were bound in paper; Romance lay unalterably within. She relented out of
exhaustion, yet he would not let her near Marina, his
embrace tightening. She remembered abruptly that she was really living upon
his money. “To tell you the truth, it has seemed just lately as
though we were becoming in some measure estranged. His face, as he
looked down where his hand sought for a weapon concealed in her petticoat, was
so close that she could see only the line of his firm jaw, the drag of his powdered
hair that drew it into the military pigtail, and the black ribbon that adorned it. The sun was setting when she
carried the metal garbage can to the curb with their
remains in it, where they sat underneath the stale
chocolate cake that Sheila had thrown away and a pile of
mildewy lettuce. “You have changed somehow—and you certainly are less
friendly. I don't care how lonesome it is. They cleaned up the mess as best
they could and she went home with him docilely.
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