Canton was something like a blind alley; unless
you were native, you couldn't get anywhere except by returning to Hong-Kong
and starting afresh. ‘I trust you were not altogether
disgusted when I kissed you. Lucy felt her heart splinter in her breast. "Be still!"
"Oh, come along! I've just got to have my muck bath. "You were saying—?"
"I started to say something; that is all. Well, I'll take myself off. Imagine her, putting herself to all this delay and
inconvenience for a young wastrel she did not know and who, the moment he
got on his feet, would doubtless pass out of her life without so much as Thank
you! And it was ten to one that she would not comprehend the ingratitude. “Really?”
“Would not let it go. Les Misérables, A Tale of Two Cities, Henry Esmond, The Last Days of
Pompeii, The Marble Faun … Love stories!
Until her arrival in Singapore, she had never read a novel. Do you know that this becomes a habit?”
“If you would only teach us all,” he murmured, “how to acquire it. His foot tapped impatiently, and he
took up the papers. Don’t look so
frightened.
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