’
‘Eh bien, it is your fault entirely in this case. The wall of the sky, the wall of the
horizon, the wall behind which each human being hid—the wall behind which
she herself was hiding! If only her mother had lived, her darling mother!
Presently the unhappy puzzlement left her face; and an inward glow began to
lighten it. He was a London man of business, spending a small legacy in Paris. ” She said. ”
“Don’t worry yourself. “All the time he is
shouting and muttering. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. As for the doctor, he found a pleasure in this service that would have puzzled
him had he paused to analyse it. “I’m not gentle. The scent of cloying pine dust filled the air as
floodlights shone eerily through the jungle gym of new
wood. Ascending the stairs, and conducting them
along a sombre gallery, in which Trenchard noticed that every door was painted
black, and numbered, he stopped at the entrance of a chamber; and, selecting a
key from the bunch at his girdle, unlocked it. “That young
man was giving a luncheon party to a dozen friends at the Café de Paris to-day. ‘Ah, there is the little menace itself,’ he drawled, recovering some of his own
sangfroid. But are we any more free?”
“Well?”
“I mean we’ve long strings to tether us, but we are bound all the same.
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