Part 2
They received the guests in their pretty little hall with genuine effusion. She was practicing with them on
that very day, and displaced a rather mediocre boy
violinist who claimed “to be better at the viola anyway” as
first chair. He too was flushed and ruffled; one side of his collar
had slipped from its stud and he held a hand to the corner of his jaw. Spurlock halted in his tracks. “John, you were never
bound to me, you don’t owe me anything. . ”
“My feeling in the matter,” Sir John said, “is as I have stated. She felt like Snow White in
a secret forest house populated by dwarves. She’s
as stubborn as the proverbial mule, and—’ with a sigh that felt wrenched out of
him ‘—utterly captivating. The necessity which had previously existed of leaving the ghastly evidence of
the murderous deed undisturbed,—the presence of the mangled corpse,—the
bustle of the inquest, at which her attendance was required,—all these
circumstances produced a harrowing effect upon the young girl's imagination. Anna, with her marvellous capacity for enjoyment, ate cakes and
laughed, and forgot that she had had tea an hour or so ago at an A. From the first there had always been between her and
her listeners that electrical sympathy which only a certain order of genius seems
able to create.
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