“You understand, then,” he was saying, “you understand?”
“I understand,” said Ann Veronica, tear-wet and flushed with a reciprocal
passion, but standing up to him with an equality that amazed even herself, “I
understand. ‘A
convenient desire, Mademoiselle Charvill. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. It’s just that I want to say. Your career at
the bar had given you a command of language, also a self-control not vouchsafed
to us ordinary mortals. ‘But with more courage
in her little finger than in many another female’s entire body. Naturally he was a member of the
National Honor Society and a straight A student on the
Honor Roll. He had died before they married, and when her brother became a widower she
had come to his assistance and taken over much of the care of his youngest
daughter. "I can't tell you!" she replied, blushing deeply, and clinching her little hand as
tightly as possible; "it's a secret!"
"I'll soon find it out, then," he returned, playfully forcing the paper from her
grasp. ‘Certainly this is true,’ she managed. "I have dreamed that I shall see him before I die," she rejoined.
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