‘Ah, yes? To what do I pretend?’
‘That,’ Gerald said regretfully, ‘I have not yet been able to fathom. Miss Ellicot, for instance, considers me a most improper person. Think better of it. His face darkened. All through the love music of the second act, until the hunting horns of Mark
break in upon the dream, Ann Veronica’s consciousness was flooded with the
perception of a man close beside her, preparing some new thing to say to her,
preparing, perhaps, to touch her, stretching hungry invisible tentacles about her. You can give up thinking and leave all the
brain work to her. “Of course, one lives
differently in Paris, but then—Paris is Paris. Everything in this world changed—except human folly. And yet he knew that his skill was equal to that of any fashionable practitioner in
Hong-Kong.
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