The doctor expected her to seize upon the subtle
inference that there was something furtive, even criminal, in the manner the
patient set this obligation upon humanity at large, to look after him in the event
of his death. She
wore a black satin dress, a little shiny at the seams, a purposeless bow of white
tulle at the back of her neck, and a huge chatelaine. Things seem to come rather easily. "
"Whom do you mean?" demanded Jackson. ”
“I suppose all men,” said Ann Veronica, in a tone of detached criticism, “get
some such entanglement. “Oh I most definitely think so. “It is true,” he said, “that I was dining last night at a restaurant in the Boulevard
des Italiennes, and it is true that my companion was a young lady whose name is
Pellissier. ’
Chapter Nine
As she devoured the simple meal of bread and cheese, and several slices of cold
roast beef, the whole washed down with a poor sort of coffee, Melusine listened
with avid interest to the details of her mother’s life as revealed by the
exclamatory conversation of Joan Ibstock. She was
too wrapped up in the sheer joy of playing again; it had
201
been intimate, masturbatory.
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