\" Mike retorted churlishly. Basically a kindly man but made cynical and derisive by sordid contacts,
O'Higgins had almost forgotten that there was such a thing as unselfishness. ’
The lady hesitated a moment, her eyes seeming to measure the distance
between where he stood and the door. "What would you like most in this world?" he asked. It plucked shingles from the school building,
threatening to shake them all loose one by one like rotting
teeth. ’
Gosse’s eyes went to the portrait, and evidently took in the uncanny
resemblance, looking from it to Melusine and back again. She remained for some seconds crouching at the fender, poker in hand. Why? While the
front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of
underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as
much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back
chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?”
His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some
secret or forbidden or impossible lover. Your
disobedience be upon your own head. Reaction set in and she leapt at him, beating at his chest with her fists.
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