He was a civil servant of some
standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious,
nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he
described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather
carefully finished verse. But I don’t care; I haven’t a spark of shame. ‘You were supposed to be nursing him,’ Martha grumbled, ‘and helping him
convalesce. “I’m very shy, and I would like to opt
out if you don’t mind. ’
She turned and swept away from him, pacing the length of the room to the
window Gerald had unshuttered. ‘For once, you’re talking like a sensible
man. He glanced at Ruth (who had stood with her back
to the wall, pinned there throughout the contest by terror and the knowledge of
her own helplessness), then at the bronze menace, and calculated correctly that
this particular adventure was finished. But I mean to have them.
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