I wonder if he really wants me to go home. ” She peered at him through the
semi-blackness. ”
“Well?” Anna remarked calmly. Why do
women take to lies and deceit and trickery as naturally as a duck to water?”
“You are not alluding, I hope, to Miss Pellissier?” Ennison said stiffly. ”
“And that, I suppose,” he said, waving his stick towards Mr. On this side stood the instruments with which the
latter piece of pleasantry had been effected,—namely, a bucket filled with paint
and a brush: on that was erected a trophy, consisting of a watchman's rattle, a
laced hat, with the crown knocked out, and its place supplied by a lantern, a
campaign wig saturated with punch, a torn steen-kirk and ruffles, some halfdozen staves, and a broken sword. She is in the hall now. That
is why I have dyed my hair, that is why I have abandoned my rôle of ingenuèe
and altered my whole style of dress. As for me, I look twice at it. You, for
instance, you live, you are not afraid to live. The drawers at the moment were too busy to attend to her, and she
would have seized the opportunity of examining, unperceived, the assemblage
within, through a little curtained window that overlooked the adjoining chamber,
if an impediment had not existed in the shape of Baptist Kettleby, whose portly
person entirely obscured the view. He appeared to be strangely uncommunicative, though I tried to draw him
out.
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