And in this fact lay his danger. His hands were exploring her
once again in the car. ’
The breathy laugh came, and Madame Valade abandoned her fan. He will wish to have his fears
laid to rest. The inner apartment was rather gracefully furnished with a thick, fine Turkish
carpet, a good brass fender, a fine old bureau, and on the walls were engravings
of two young girls’ heads by Greuze, and of some modern picture of boys
bathing in a sunlit pool. Instead, she laughed,
laughed with lips and eyes, laughed till the tears ran down her cheeks. There was a tearing sound as the canvas gave way, and the precious portrait
ripped apart as the top of the Frenchman’s head came through it. She was aware of the body of the court, of clerks seated at a black
table littered with papers, of policemen standing about stiffly with expressions of
conscious integrity, and a murmuring background of the heads and shoulders of
spectators close behind her. ”
The topic of his invalid wife bored him, and he turned at once to Ann
Veronica. They went on talking
in the train—it seemed to her father a slight want of deference to him—and he
listened and pretended to read the Times. ”
“You cannot play at hide-and-seek with this creature all your life,” he answered. “I say!” he said, without any movement. ‘None of them means anything to you at all?
How odd. She told the porter to
take it to the booking-office, and it was only after a disconcerting moment or so
that she found she ought to have directed him to go to the cloak-room. She could see that he was curious, so she sat
upon him and they rocked back and forth.
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