‘Poor Gerald has been very busy about your affairs this last week. She wished she could steal his smiles and keep them in a
box, they had always been so precious. The future? He
dared not speculate upon that. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met
Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the
thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but
which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom
he had just left. ‘I have not asked for this trouble from anyone. ’
‘How do I know that?’ demanded Jack. ”
She was silent for a time, with her nose on the pillow, and that brought her to:
“What’s the good of pretending?
“I love him,” she said aloud to the dim forms of her room, and repeated it, and
went on to imagine herself doing acts of tragically dog-like devotion to the
biologist, who, for the purposes of the drama, remained entirely unconscious of
and indifferent to her proceedings. The manager had
sketched the girl's character, or rather had interpreted it, from the incidents
which had happened since dinner. And immeasurable was the calm evolved from this knowledge. ’
‘Eh bien, it is your fault entirely in this case. She was perhaps as near tears as ever before in her life. He did not spend more time with her. ”
“Not in the least,” Anna answered calmly. \"I don't want to hurt you. She was quite the rage, in a small way, you know.
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