As he passed out he saw in the hall a quietly dressed
man with keen grey eyes, talking to one of the footmen. As she danced there was in
her ears the faded echo of wooden tom-toms. Tell me, Sir," she added, with forced calmness, and grasping Wood's arm;
"what has Jack done? Tell me in a word, that I may know the worst. Only
I’m so incensed with that crazy fool Gerald that—oh, well, never mind. Jack's complexion was that of a gipsy; Darrell's as
fresh and bright as a rose. Nobody can anticipate your next move. ”
“We’ve both fallen on our feet! We’re the rarest of mortals! The real thing!
There’s not a compromise nor a sham nor a concession between us. “What are your objections?” she said. "
"Lord!—think of having sharks for neighbours? Every morning I'll take a dip
into the lagoon. A girl of fifteen or sixteen gave her a handbill that she regarded as a tract
until she saw “Votes for Women” at the top. The iron slipped from his
face, leaving it blank with astonishment. ”
She saw him flinch, but he gave no sign of it in his tone. ‘Get out! Out, I say! Think I want another miserable cowardly good-for-nothing
wastrel on my hands? Begone! Out of my house!’
He drove them to the door, grimly satisfied when the girl’s nerve broke. Why? While the
front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of
underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as
much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back
chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?”
His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some
secret or forbidden or impossible lover. ’
‘Yes, she duped me finely,’ agreed Gerald.
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