He wore a French military
undress of the period, with high jack-boots, and a laced hat; and, though his
attire indicated no particular rank, he had completely the air of a person of
distinction. She was very greatly exercised by the two systems of values—the two series
of explanations that her comparative anatomy on the one hand and her sense of
beauty on the other, set going in her thoughts. The few pence
left in her purse would only provide a very scanty lunch. Gerald took Madame’s hand and kissed the fingers with a little more warmth
than punctilio demanded. She was already a little prepared by her discursive reading and discussion
under the Widgett influence for ideas and “movements,” though
temperamentally perhaps she was rather disposed to resist and criticise than
embrace them. ‘Jacques!’
He stopped, but he did not turn. She could feel teenage
girls from all corners of the room tensing, preparing to
shriek. She saw his face change, how he regretted. But that
was soon put right, and she walked out into London with a peculiar exaltation of
mind, an exaltation that partook of panic and defiance, but was chiefly a sense of
vast unexampled release. With Jack so badly injured, how would
she get him home? How get herself home, now that Trodger had arrested her. Like the
parrot, she could memorize the lines, but she could not understand them. After an hour of waiting, she slammed her bedroom
door and he returned to his basement. She said there was no other way to get them to stop
their constant screaming.
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