’
‘I am a very English man,’ Gerald said. Her heart in her
mouth, she heard his foot scrape on the floorboard and knew from his expression
that Gosse had heard it too. They struck her as cold and
indifferent. You
women, with your tricks of evasion, you’re a sex of swindlers. The library was on the ground floor, Melusine recalled from the previous visit,
for she had searched through a desk in a room filled with bookshelves of leatherbound volumes. Manning’s handwriting had an air of being clear without being easily
legible; it was large and rather roundish, with a lack of definition about the
letters and a disposition to treat the large ones as liberal-minded people
nowadays treat opinions, as all amounting to the same thing really—a yearssmoothed boyish rather than an adult hand. Pragmar probably knew Mr. I want to talk to you, and I must return tomorrow. They were in many respects so right; she clung to that, and
shirked more and more the paradoxical conviction that they were also somehow,
and even in direct relation to that rightness, absurd. But to England! What has
happened, then?”
Already the terror of a few hours ago seemed to have passed away from the girl
who leaned back so lazily in her chair, watching the tip of her patent shoe swing
backwards and forwards. Though nearly dark, there was still light enough left to enable him to discern
surrounding objects.
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