That could signify
nothing except that the doctor had a friend down there somewhere, on an island
in one of those archipelagoes. She was inclined to think that perhaps for a girl the converse of
his method was the case; an older man, a man beyond the range of anything
“nonsensical,” was, perhaps, the most interesting sort of friend one could meet. “Most of it is ugly and frowsy,” she declared, “but it isn’t worth talking about. “You are very kind,” she said hesitatingly, “but I don’t remember—I don’t think
that I know you, do I?”
“I am afraid that you do not,” he admitted, with a smile which he meant to be
encouraging. ” The shock of their
intellectual attitude was over, usage robbed it of the first quaint effect of
deliberate unreason. And she defies me. He could not pull her soul apart now to
satisfy that queer absorbing, delving thing which was his literary curiosity; he
had put her outside that circle. Unless—would he hide from them as he had hidden from her? It was a big
house, he said. He was an odd one, especially for a young man. And now her father said she must not go. ’
‘I imagine it must be a relief to you, after so lucky an escape. "I repeat," said Ah Cum, "that the venture is not propitious. He turned, expecting to see his wife. She had not seen Ramage for ten or
eleven days, and she was quite ready for a gossip with him. “In a sort of beautiful garden-close—wearing lovely dresses and picking
beautiful flowers?”
“Ah! If one could!”
“While those other girls trudge to business and those other women let
lodgings.
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