" After a moment Spurlock said: "Perhaps I am an ungrateful dog. “Yet it is my last evening, and I think —if you are sure that you would like to have me—that I will risk it. . Perhaps that is why I lost my ambition. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets without giving any return?” “I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. He subjected me there to great annoyance by claiming me as his wife. ’ Her gaze followed the butler, who was moving towards the door. Impassive by nature and training, he was conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by a dull background of disappointment. The vast mirrored chamber, with its four little square window bays, two either side of the large raised dais that led to the French doors, was very full of company for the start of the Little Season. From the opposite corner under the trees a man with his hat slouched over his eyes stood and glowered at them. Lucy loved orchestras, the bittersweet tinge of rosin dust that hung in the air, the way that the sun shone through filthy windows illuminating the marimbas with a storybook light. She wanted to take him in her arms and hush him, but she sat perfectly still. Until this instant, he discovered, he had thought of Melusine’s plan only in a nebulous fashion, a naïve girl’s dream. ’ Roding gave a bark of derisive laughter and left the room.
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