Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. ’
‘I think you—’ He broke off abruptly, astonished at what he had been about to
say. I'll try the effect of a jolly stave. “So you still think of me as husband, even though we
have long since tired of each other. In that case I'll help you. A certain irritation crept into his manner as he did
so. “I have found out at last what a useless person I am
—from a utilitarian point of view. Wood. The only thing that was louder to her was the beating
of his heart. How clever she was, to fool
everybody so easily! Not yet had any one suspected the truth: that she was, in a
certain worldly sense, only four weeks old, that her every act had been written
down on paper beforehand, and that her success lay in rigidly observing the rules
which she herself had drafted to govern her conduct. “Tell her,” said Mr.
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