It was a large, littered, self-forgetful apartment, decorated with unframed
charcoal sketches by various incipient masters; and an open bookcase,
surmounted by plaster casts and the half of a human skull, displayed an odd
miscellany of books—Shaw and Swinburne, Tom Jones, Fabian Essays, Pope
and Dumas, cheek by jowl. ‘If you had met her, you’d understand. A bowl of roses, just brought by Ann Veronica, adorned the communal
dressing-table, and Ann Veronica was particularly trim in preparation for a call
she was to make with her aunt later in the afternoon. Thames sat with Winifred's hand clasped in his own, and commenced a recital of
his adventures, which may be briefly told. Though within the
last two days he had committed several heinous offences, and one of a darker
dye than any with which the reader has been made acquainted, his breast was not
yet so callous as to be wholly insensible to the stings of conscience. I’m a desperate young woman. She
tried not to blush. Five hours later she tiptoed down the hall and paused at the threshold of what
they now called his study. You've been a great
help these five days; for he had to have attendance constantly, and neither Wu
nor I could have given that. Voilà tout. Had you died, I should have fully obeyed
the instructions on that envelope. She addressed him in a tone of puzzlement.
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