But only inside, you understand, that one cannot see it. Nothing would induce me to marry you, or any man at present. He had but to give his orders. “Did you ever see women so weary-looking and so dowdy? They do not talk. ” She solemnly replied. Has your ladyship any further commands?" "None whatever. ” “Why not?” “You see, if I do go home my father objects to the College, and as for typing —” “Don’t go home. ” “You are not going to that ball! You are not going out of this house in that getup!” Ann Veronica tried yet more earnestly to treat him, as she would treat any man, with an insistence upon her due of masculine respect. ” Mr. They had not so far been of much personal interest to Gerald, but tonight was different. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. She was on the rim of civilization, entering, as Spurlock was on the rim, preparing to make his exit. It was not quite the search I intended,’ he said with a touch of selfmockery as he released her, ‘but success comes in all sorts of unexpected ways. 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. Poor fellow! he sometimes indulges the hope of marrying you, when he grows old enough.
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