"
"The very idea is dreadful," whimpered Edgeworth Bess. I don’t
know. Why should she? she asked
rebelliously. . The burning topic of the Mendelian controversy was
approached on one or two occasions, but avoided dexterously; and they talked
chiefly of letters and art and the censorship of the English stage. I arrived here with something less than five pounds in my pocket. Good looks, with a melancholy cast,
always drew sentimental females. Gerald crossed back
to the window. One of
them is furnished with a packet containing the heads of the statement I have just
related, which, if I don't return at a certain time, will be laid before the proper
authorities. But you have looked after me very
well, and we will not allow this Gérard, who makes me all the time excessively
angry, you understand, to make trouble between us. It must have cut him. . ’
***
Gerald Alderley stepped out of a house he had been visiting in Hamilton Place
and the door closed behind him. Constance Widgett’s abundant copper-red hair was
bent down over some dimly remunerative work—stencilling in colors upon
rough, white material—at a kitchen table she had dragged up-stairs for the
purpose, while on her bed there was seated a slender lady of thirty or so in a
dingy green dress, whom Constance had introduced with a wave of her hand as
Miss Miniver.
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