Why? While the
front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of
underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as
much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back
chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?”
His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some
secret or forbidden or impossible lover. This was to pass under the arch,
along the narrow ledge of the starling, and, if possible, attain the eastern
platform, where, protected by the bridge, he would suffer less from the excessive
violence of the gale. ‘Sergeant Trodger is who I am. "She tells me there was a Kanaka cook; been in the family as long as she can
remember. The weather's been foul
enough for the last fortnight, but I've never turned my back upon it. You understand. "
She kindled with sympathy. It was
drafty and cold most of the time, but she found that she
was not nearly as sensitive to the cold as long as he was
99
there to warm her up. Now, it
won't do a bit of good to warn Spurlock.
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