"
"I wish I could, Joan," returned the carpenter, sadly. Directly
he saw Anna he accosted her. ‘I
have an arthritic complaint, which is why you find me retired from fashionable
life. She had been fighting down this thought for
days: that Hoddy did not care, that he did not love her, that he had mistaken a
vagary of the mind for a substance, and now regretted what he had done—
married a girl who was not his equal in anything. In passing, why do we fear death? For our sins? Rather, isn't it the tremendous
inherent human curiosity to know what is going to happen to-morrow that causes
us to wince at the thought of annihilation? A subconscious resentment against
the idea of entering darkness while our neighbour will proceed with his petty
affairs as usual?
"It's nip and tuck," said the doctor; "but we'll pull him through. “So tell me what happened, all of it! I saw roses!”
Shari exclaimed. She addressed Ann Veronica with
an air of conveying great open secrets to her. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. Ruth did not consider it necessary, however, to add that she had not notified this
aunt of her coming, that she did not know whether the aunt still resided in
Hartford or was underground. He
turned to observe what this object was that had so unexpectedly diverted the
young man's attention. ‘But, Gérard—’
‘Don’t start arguing,’ he said in a tone that brooked no defiance. “No. Retract your words instantly, or take the consequences. I’ll get in trouble.
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