’ She raised the pistol. They ascended by a lift
to one of the upper floors, passed through a long ward, and finally came to a bed
in the extreme corner, round which a screen had been arranged. . Why should she trouble herself over that young fool, who was
nothing to her; who, when he eventually sobered up, would not be able to
recognize her, or if he did, as something phantasmagorical?
Perhaps he should not apply the term "fool"; "unfortunate" might be the more
accurate application. She felt a hysterical desire to strike him, to
burst out crying, to blurt out the whole miserable truth. The
enclosure by which it was surrounded was about twelve feet high; the under part
being composed of taken planks, the upper of a strong iron grating, surmounted
by sharp iron spikes. ’
Mrs Prudence Sindlesham, a widow of several years’ standing, so she told
Gerald, was a scarecrow of a female, long and lank of limb in a figure that had
once been willowy. He was profoundly stirred. I thought it would be
magnificent to have a great house in Paris, and more money than any other
woman. Bought her a nose job for her
sixteenth birthday along with a car, I forget what model,
but it was a nice car, a Mercedes convertible. ’
Taking the chair she had indicated with a careless wave of one stiff-fingered
hand, Gerald felt hope burgeoning.
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