McClintock's astonishment merged into a state of mild hypnosis. ”
“Then, whoever he may be, he is not Meysey Hill,” Courtlaw said. “You need not be alarmed,” he said. Scarcely any one noticed the full measure of her consternation. “Well?” she said. To walk beside him, dressed akin to him,
rucksacked and companionable, was bliss in itself; each step she took was like
stepping once more across the threshold of heaven. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. If ever she felt fatigue in these long tramps which had already taken her half
over London, she never admitted it. She pulled her hand away quickly. We have known men who have come here for no other
purpose than to prove their unassailable virtue, who have strode into the arena of
temptation, waving the—the what is it—the white flower of a blameless life,
only to exchange it with marvellous facility for the violets of the Parisienne. Yes, yes, there is no doubt
about it. She would write to Gerald. I am engaged to sing every evening at the ‘Unusual’
music hall. It was filled with sopping lichens and green benches too
slimy to sit upon. ’
‘Oh, don’t you?’ Gerald said grimly.
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