At the present moment she was living in a world of her own creation, a carnival
of brave men and fair women, characters out of the tales she had so newly read
for the first time. I would be
chased by every curious party on this planet, by vampireseekers, by witch-hunters, by researchers, you name it. ‘What’s more, I wouldn’t
blame her. If the principal instigator of the crime, whom I afterwards encountered on
the platform, and who was dashed into the raging flood by the shower of bricks,
escaped, his preservation must have been indeed miraculous. She had decided that she would spend the next morning
answering advertisements in the papers that abounded in the writing-room; and
so, after half an hour’s perusal of back numbers of the Sketch in the drawingroom, she had gone to bed. ‘Monsieur, my wife intended not to anger you,’ he said in a tone of apology. To him she had always appeared as a mere pleasure-loving
parasite—something quite insignificant. ”
“You are his first wife!” The pieces fell together for
her instantly. She cursed the treachery of
memory, its frailty and spottiness. “Whenever they try to take hold of life a man intervenes. Here, as has already been observed, condemned malefactors were
allowed to converse with such of their guests as had not interest or money
enough to procure admission to them in the hold.
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