The significance of the kiss was still
obscure to her, though she had frequently encountered the word and act in the
Old and New Testaments and latterly in novels. But not so much a pig as that man. ’ And with that he went off to
the City, stern and silent, leaving his bacon on his plate—a great slice of bacon
hardly touched. “What made
you think” he said, abruptly, with the gleam of avidity in his face, “that love
makes people happy?”
“I know it must. We came on here at once. “Let me hasten,” she said,
“to reassure you. It makes wonderful sentences that you can repeat in the City
and are good enough for Punch. ”
“You’ll get them,” he said. "Your audacity passes belief," cried the latter, as soon as his surprise would
allow him utterance. ’
‘But what do you want it for, miss?’
‘But to protect myself. Do you recall the night she showed you the face in the locket? Do you
remember how she said—'If only my mother had lived'? Did you ever see
anything more tender or beautiful?"
"I remember. “It might be a policeman borrowing the driveway and
looking out for speeders. How she had fought her eagerness in the beginning, lest it reveal her ignorance
of the marvels of mankind! The terror and ecstasy of that night in Singapore—
the first city she had ever seen! There was still the impression that something
akin to a miracle had piloted her successfully from one ordeal to another.
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