They tracked the fugitive to the
Mint; but, like hounds at fault, they here lost all scent of their prey. He played for an hour—Grieg, Chopin, Rubenstein, Liszt,
crashing music. She walked through
the walls. She did not know herself. Certainly not a gentlewoman. She was very pale, but she
reminded him more at that minute than at any time of “Alcide” as he had first
known her. “You mean to tell me” he said, “that you have a
lover? While I have been keeping you! Yes—keeping you!”
This view of life he hurled at her as if it were an offensive missile. Nature is God,
Anna, and the greatest artist of us all a pigmy. He might not condone it, but
the feelings that had prompted it augured well for Melusine’s safety. Stanley used his authority, and commanded Ann Veronica to come home, to
which, of course, she said she wouldn’t; and then he warned her not to defy him,
warned her very solemnly, and then commanded her again. And
now, only twenty-four hours behind him … that is, if he wasn't paddling by on
the return route to Hong-Kong or had dropped down to Macao. ”
“What is it that I should plan for in life?”
“Life itself is glorious enough. He was silent.
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