"
"But I was intoxicated!"
"So was the man you just fought in this room. Michelle was sounding alarm bells
everywhere in Lucy’s brain, but Lucy felt the pull of a
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greater inertia, the urge to stay put so strong that to deny
it was to deny the existence of gravity. Swiftly she ran her hands over the
carvings, trying to find the lever to the secret panel again. But after all, what did it matter
whether she had secrets or not? To him she was not a woman but a symbol; and
one did not investigate the antecedents of symbols. Lucy
didn’t seem like a teenage girl at all to Sheila and she
knew it. A moment more and he would have been crushed beneath the ponderous
board, when a slight but strong arm arrested its descent. It was
easy for him to see that she desired to be agreeable to him. He lowered her neck before her, and she
noticed a bizarre urge to bite him rising from her mind
like an itch. Very likely by this time the whole truth is
known. As he looked up at
the massive tower, the clock tolled forth the hour of midnight. It’s
wrong in the eyes of most people. Annabel shook her head. ”
“Did it come—in Paris?”
“I do not know,” he answered. They shared
one class, Advanced Geometry. "And now, farewell, Mr.
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