”
“Well, why not?” Lady Lescelles asked, smiling. ’
‘Oui, mais—safe. . My mind is full of ideas and images that I have been cherishing
and accumulating—dreams of travelling side by side, of lunching quietly
together in some jolly restaurant, of moonlight and music and all that side of life,
of seeing you dressed like a queen and shining in some brilliant throng—mine;
of your looking at flowers in some old-world garden, our garden—there are
splendid places to be got down in Surrey, and a little runabout motor is quite
within my means. What a pity!
For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the
physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had
seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet
instead of four—broken, without resilience. "
"But what, in God's name, possessed you? You have already wrecked your own
life and now you've wrecked hers. Tell me, what are these bananas and nuts for?”
“Dessert. There are
sing-song girls in Hong-Kong and Shanghai who are famous and wealthy. “It’s a new phase in the life history,” he remarked. ’
‘What, a common soldier?’
‘He was not a common soldier. "
This she did carefully, but inwardly commenting that he was still in the realm of
strange fancies. Her complexion had resisted the snow-glare wonderfully; her skin had
only deepened its natural warmth a little under the Alpine sun. She
seemed to be endowed with superhuman strength. “You did
not wish to see him particularly this evening, then?”
Anna hesitated. And I have
wanted to so very much.
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