He waited for hours after
dusk but she never arrived. ‘Jacques?’ she called. "
"I hope such a thing never will happen again, my dear," observed Wood, mildly,
"but, when it does, it will be time to consider what course we ought to pursue. ‘Me, I have a name. I’ve a dread of love dropping its petals, becoming mean and ugly. She is no more English than that set of beggars over there. “What did you say?”
“Well, I considered myself justified in denying it,” Anna answered drily. When he was concentrating, deep
shadows formed under his gray eyes. To call yourself ‘Alcide’! Your hair, your gestures, your voice, all
mine! Oh, how dared you do it?”
“You must not forget,” Anna said calmly, “that it is necessary for me also—to
live. You have not forgotten——”
“I have forgotten nothing?” he answered, enigmatically. The study seemed absolutely unaltered, there was still
the same lamp with a little chip out of the shade, still the same gas fire, still the
same bundle of blue and white papers, it seemed, with the same pink tape about
them, at the elbow of the arm-chair, still the same father. “I don’t see that his
being a good sort matters. ”
“And he accepted meekly?”
“Practically. But we've got to cook up
some kind of a story to protect her. If you don’t eat humble-pie now you may live to fare
worse later.
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