Impassive by nature and training, he was
conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by
a dull background of disappointment. The
music took hold of her slowly as her eyes wandered from the indistinct still
ranks of the audience to the little busy orchestra with its quivering violins, its
methodical movements of brown and silver instruments, its brightly lit scores
and shaded lights. She
refused to accept her fate, but what is it that she could do
about it? Night after night she invented alternatives. ‘What would you? The nuns they would not
believe me, and so it was not possible for me to stay. This is also the ragged edge of the world, too. Still, the respite was sufficient for Spurlock to look
about for some weapon. ’
‘And me,’ came the guttural response, ‘I will certainly murder you the very
next time I am compelled to see your face. At last in a street near the Hampstead Road she
hit upon a room that had an exceptional quality of space and order, and a tall
woman with a kindly face to show it. The autumn rain had made every surface tacky,
the wet seats of painted red picnic tables were avoided. I——”
She threw herself into an easy chair. "Oh! nothing at all," answered Jack, sneeringly, "though this room's as much
mine as yours, for that matter. But before he suffered at Tyburn, he
charged your mother to restore it.
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