“It is Michelle, John. Horrible doubts assailed her. "
"You're agitating yourself unnecessarily, Joan," returned Wood, in a soothing
voice. I don't think he'll come to
himself too soon. . But you must tell her. But the besetting evil of the place, and that which drew down the
severest censures of the writers above-mentioned, was that this spot,—which of
all others should have been most free from such intrusion—was made a public
exhibition. But that other world, in spite of her resolute exclusion of it, was always
looking round corners and peeping through chinks and crannies, and rustling and
raiding into the order in which she chose to live, shining out of pictures at her,
echoing in lyrics and music; it invaded her dreams, it wrote up broken and
enigmatical sentences upon the passage walls of her mind. All the initial confidence in
herself was gone; her courage was merely a shell to hide the lack. Sir John heard gossip about us—about Anna the recluse, a paragon
of virtue, and Annabel alias ‘Alcide’ a dancer at the cafés chantants, and
concerning whom there were many stories which were false, and a few—which
were true. His idea was to get behind this sustained listlessness. You know that, and I know that, though we might be put to it to
find a reason why. Pausing at each door on the landing, Jack placed his ear to the keyhole,
and listened intently.
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