One main avenue was for her to become a sort of salaried accessory
wife or mother, to be a governess or an assistant schoolmistress, or a very high
type of governess-nurse. The business of
serving gave Gerald a few moment’s grace, for he was dubious about the effect
on an elderly female, not in the best of health, of raking up old memories. In these
waters the shell has about given out. "
"Well, I've a job open; but I don't want you to get the wrong idea of it. Why not? Imagine I’ve had a fit of hysteria—and that I’ve come
round. ”
She stirred gently in her chair. Let me see now. “One day,” he resumed, “we will start off early and come down into
Kandersteg and up these zigzags and here and here, and so past this Daubensee
to a tiny inn—it won’t be busy yet, though; we may get it all to ourselves—on
the brim of the steepest zigzag you can imagine, thousands of feet of zigzag; and
you will sit and eat lunch with me and look out across the Rhone Valley and over
blue distances beyond blue distances to the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa and a
long regiment of sunny, snowy mountains. What you’re after is too risky. But if I escape, my gratitude—"
"Pshaw!" interrupted Jonathan, scornfully. "I was born in the South Seas and I am on my way to America, to an aunt. He thrust out a rhetorical hand. "Good Lord!—cannibals?"
"Aye.
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