“I lied, as I would have committed a murder,
or done any evil deed sooner than lose you. He hated the taste of it. “Are you sorry you waited, aunt?” she said. Watching her strip had been delicious for him, and a part
of him enjoyed her self-consciousness acutely. For it was not a good thing
to like one man too much when one was going to marry another. She heard the bamboo curtain rattle slightly. . “Who will you stop with?”
“I shall go on my own. My mind is full of ideas and images that I have been cherishing
and accumulating—dreams of travelling side by side, of lunching quietly
together in some jolly restaurant, of moonlight and music and all that side of life,
of seeing you dressed like a queen and shining in some brilliant throng—mine;
of your looking at flowers in some old-world garden, our garden—there are
splendid places to be got down in Surrey, and a little runabout motor is quite
within my means. You could return to civilization and have a good time all the rest of your days. She held out her hand for it, but Gerald smiled. He seemed so clean anyway, his fair
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skin, his light brown hair, there almost seemed to be no
point.
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