She was greatly exercised by the problem of confiding in the Widgetts; they
were dears, and she talked away two evenings with Constance without broaching
the topic; she made some vague intimations in letters to Miss Miniver that Miss
Miniver failed to mark. I have two Malay clerks in the store; but I'm obliged to
have a white man to watch over them, or they'd clean me out. Whatever he wrote he was: he became this or that character, he suffered or
prospered equally. She dreaded living off the land again, like an animal,
as she had done for dozens of years at a stretch. Loved his memory still, for
all he knew. The gallows has
groaned for him for years. He was just
as much a greater master than any other I ever saw, as he was a greater judge of
time and measure. Poor Ben
was not so fortunate. Here was an experienced man of the
world, her friend, who evidently took a great interest in this supreme topic and
was willing to give her the benefit of his experiences! Why should not she be at
her ease with him? Why should not she know things? It is hard enough anyhow
for a human being to learn, she decided, but it is a dozen times more difficult
than it need be because of all this locking of the lips and thoughts. He occupied one of the smaller houses near the
station. She could still remember his face, the perpetually wet
lips that turned down at the sides, his drooping Roman
eyes. I am quite clear about this.
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