”
The dinner came to an end at last, and the whiskered waiter presented his bill
and evacuated the apartment and closed the door behind him with an almost
ostentatious discretion. Books! Aren't they wonderful?"
The blind alley of life stretching out before her, with its secret doorways and
hidden menaces; and she was unconcerned. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew,
could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the
almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. It was in no sense confessional; it was a state of mind in the
patient the doctor had already anticipated. The nurse sent for
him as soon as she saw that you were conscious. I've left mine on the spikes of the New Prison, and
must borrow yours. ‘Pray you, do me this one little service, and do
not ask me why. Here was an experienced man of the
world, her friend, who evidently took a great interest in this supreme topic and
was willing to give her the benefit of his experiences! Why should not she be at
her ease with him? Why should not she know things? It is hard enough anyhow
for a human being to learn, she decided, but it is a dozen times more difficult
than it need be because of all this locking of the lips and thoughts. ”
She marked an hotel that seemed neither opulent nor odd in a little side street
opening on the Embankment, made up her mind with an effort, and, returning by
Hungerford Bridge to Waterloo, took a cab to this chosen refuge with her two
pieces of luggage. Then Ah Cum was notified that the patient had sat up in bed for quarter of an
hour. “Well, no,” she answered. For fully five minutes he lay quite motionless. She taught me how to crochet and cross
stitch. ”
Her hand hung over the side of her chair nearest to him. Its cavernous expanses equaled the
upstairs of the house.
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