Stanley came home at a quarter to six—an earlier train by fifteen
minutes than he affected—his sister met him in the hall with a hushed
expression. "There won't be much left for you," he
said. I spent many happy days there. Her lover surely did not
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understand the implications of what he had asked for and
his lust blinded him to the realities of existence even now. "Bring the light, Nab. “Some afternoon. Returning to the audience-chamber in a by-no-means enviable state of mind, he
commanded the Jew to throw the body of Thames into the Well Hole. She did not think
for one moment what interpretation he might put upon the word “lover. ’
‘I could have done so at the first and saved you the pain,’ she told him merrily. ’
‘But—’
‘You’ll get her all over blood again. You go to your room and ring for your maid. She had a compartment to herself in the train from London to Morningside
Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly
have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond
measure; she sat with her knees up to her chin and her hands clasped before
them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a
lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving
out of the station, whereas she was only moving in. “Lord!” she said.
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