4. She resumed
her on guard position, and glaring steadily at him, waited again. But she must not laugh. 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. But be patient, I am your fast friend. One must get them with exactly the same intensity. ‘Only you made me lose my temper, and—’
‘I made you do so? Pah!’
Gerald at last succeeded in ripping the handkerchief from her grasp, and
swiftly held it to her neck, oblivious to her now bloodied fingers clawing at his
hand. ”
“I don’t deal very much,” said Ann Veronica, “in the Higher Morality, or the
Higher Truth, or any of those things. "We must keep still. There!"
Out of the dark unruffled sapphire of the lagoon came vertical flashes of burning
silver, singly and in groups.
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