Sheppard now directed her steps. 1
through 1. The lips were straight and
pale, the chin aggressive, the nose indomitable. David left this afternoon. Something seemed
to dredge up from the recesses of her memory and she brightened. He might miss at this
distance. Beyond the steps was a pole-chair in readiness. Abruptly he gripped her wrist. Melusine came in, picked up the lantern, and heard the library door bang open
just as the panel clicked closed behind her. “Am I becoming reasonable or am I being tamed?
“I’m simply discovering that life is many-sided and complex and puzzling. Cursing himself for his inertness, Jack soon
shook off this drowsiness, and set to work in earnest. 175
“Before you tell me the whole story,” she emphasized
the penultimate word, “just let me do something for you. Everything had so far come to pass as the withered old
Kanaka woman had foretold. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met
Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the
thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but
which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom
he had just left.
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