She felt scrawny, lanky, badly
dressed in a baggy black T-shirt, sweaty, not at all
beautiful; not even pretty. ’
He had abandoned the “sir”, Gerald noted, realising that the footman’s respect
for him had dropped sharply. Something in his smile, in the cynical suggestiveness of his deferential tone,
maddened her. ”
“Don’t be shy, Lucy. And how can I
get into one brief letter the complex accumulated desires of what is now, I find
on reference to my diary, nearly sixteen months of letting my mind run on you—
ever since that jolly party at Surbiton, where we raced and beat the other boat. She shot a sudden glance at him. He came in apologetically; all the old “Well, and how ARE we?”
note gone; and once he asked Ann Veronica, almost furtively,
“How’s Alice getting on, Vee?” Finally, on the Day, he appeared like his old
professional self transfigured, in the most beautiful light gray trousers Ann
Veronica had ever seen and a new shiny silk hat with a most becoming roll. Gray and tranquil world! Amazing, passionless
world! A world in which days without meaning, days in which “we don’t want
things to happen” followed days without meaning—until the last thing
happened, the ultimate, unavoidable, coarse, “disagreeable. ” She said. Ah! but you can’t imagine what you are to
me and what you mean to me! I suppose there is something mystical and
wonderful about all women. ”
“Straight?”
“Not a bit of it! He’s been out after eight per cent. She wants that and needs it more than anything else in the world. She went to her room and changed the
loose morning gown in which she had lunched for a dark walking dress. Love … to take her in his arms and to comfort her: and then to add to her cup of
bitterness the knowledge that her husband was a thief! For himself he did not
care; God could continue to grind and pulverize him; but to add another grain to
the evil he had already wrought upon Ruth was unthinkable. Nevertheless, Sir
John had the look of a man who was enjoying himself.
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