He stalked her, he stared at her, he craved her,
he sidled slinking and propitiatory and yet relentlessly toward her, until at last
she awoke from the suffocating nightmare nearness of his approach, and lay
awake in fear and horror listening to the unaccustomed sounds of the hotel. ‘Is it such a terrible
prospect? I will take care of you—as long as you obey me. “I am convinced you haven’t thought this out,” he went on. Everything, Miss Miniver said, was “working up,” everything was “coming
on”—the Higher Thought, the Simple Life, Socialism, Humanitarianism, it was
all the same really. About this conception of ownership he perceived and
desired a certain sentimental glamour, he liked everything properly dressed, but
it remained ownership. And probably the girl
would wear herself out, too. "
Jack was about to comply with the request, when an unlooked-for interruption
occurred. She was a very elegant young woman,
slightly taller perhaps than her sister, and with an air of reserved strength
underneath her quiet face and manner which Annabel may have lacked. Perhaps an hour later he would begin again. She recognized the cloth at once, waylaid him, and
with that directness of speech particularly hers she explained what she wanted. ‘That there governess didn’t like it, of course, me being
the lodgekeeper’s girl, and Martha just a country wench like me.
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