”
“All these things,” he muttered bitterly, “this desperate resolve to take your life
into your own hands, your unnatural craving for independence, would never
trouble you for a moment—if you really cared. A deadly sickness came over her, the room seemed spinning
round. The slight smile that played upon Winifred's lips seemed to say that she was not
quite so sure. He was alert, well-groomed, and yet—perhaps in contrast with
the more volatile French type—there was a suggestion of weight about him, not
to say heaviness. Then there was Tom Jarrot, the
hackney-coachman, who was pitched off the box against yonder curbstone, and
broke his leg. Shoving between them, she confronted the
captain herself. ‘Lay him down on a sofa,’ Melusine said, coming out behind them and
moving towards the antechamber. She was a woman now to the tips of her fingers; she had said
good-bye to her girlhood in the old garden four years and a quarter ago. A swift frown brought the still dark brows together
for a moment. “I missed the hour of your release,” he said, “but I was at the Vindicator
Restaurant. "All I want is to be happy!" she said aloud, as if she were asking for something
of such ordinary value that God would readily accord it to her because there was
so little demand for the commodity.
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