“I have not quarrelled with her. Ennison
himself, with the recollection of Annabel’s visit still fresh in his mind, was for a
moment constrained and ill at ease. The last of Jarvis’s harlots must have departed in a
hurry, for she had apparently left a roomful of clothes. While Jonathan was conversing with
Austin, from whom he took care to conceal the fact of his having seen Sheppard
since his escape, Ireton entered the Lodge. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. The
Widgetts talked with a remarkable absence of external coverings; the
Palsworthys found all the meanings of life on its surfaces. What of it?”
There was a shout of laughter. Furiously, she dashed his hands away. Wood, you shan't lord it over me, I can
promise you. “We
were bound to do this when you kissed me,” she sobbed through her tears. Opening a pair of large black eyes, the child fixed them for an instant
upon Wood, and then, alarmed by the light, uttered a low and melancholy cry,
which, however, was speedily stilled by the caresses of his mother, towards
whom he extended his tiny arms, as if imploring protection. . I am
rehearsing now for a new play at the ‘Garrick’ and I have quite made up my
mind to try and make some sort of position for myself as an actress.
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