He wondered why she thought love made people happy,
and began to talk of the smilax and pinks that adorned the table. A long chest under one of the windows was
open, some of its contents dragged out and spilling onto the floor. . Doctor Ralph came
in to tea and put his arm round Alice and kissed her, and Alice called him
“Squiggles,” and stood in the shelter of his arms for a moment with an
expression of satisfied proprietorship. We were fellow
passengers from Charing Cross, and we have been fellow lodgers in the Rue
d’Entrepot. ”
“Do you think he’ll come after you?”
“Why would he do that? It has been three hundred
239
years. Even Capes had been for her merely an excitant to passionate love—a
mere idol at whose feet one could enjoy imaginative wallowings. ‘Get out! Out, I say! Think I want another miserable cowardly good-for-nothing
wastrel on my hands? Begone! Out of my house!’
He drove them to the door, grimly satisfied when the girl’s nerve broke. She was going through with that,
anyhow. Afterward he stole out of the room with the bloodstained
sheet to boast her virginity to his brothers and father,
which only truly mattered because she was beautiful, her
mother had said.
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