Heaven knows what dim and tawdry conceptions of passion and desire were
in that blond cranium, what romance-begotten dreams of intrigue and adventure!
but they sufficed, when presently Ann Veronica went out into the darkling street
again, to inspire a flitting, dogged pursuit, idiotic, exasperating, indecent. “Julian, please, let’s go to your place. The McCloskeys had picked Lucy from a bunch of
children languishing at the Illinois Christian Home for
Children. They had completed a circuit of the mansion before Roding’s frustration burst
out. I can fairly understand Ruth; but
you…!"
"Have you ever been so lonely that the soul of you cried in anguish? Twentyfour hours a day to think in, alone?… Perhaps I did not want to go mad from
loneliness. She was aware of
people—her aunt, her father, her fellow-students, friends, and neighbors—
moving about outside this glowing secret, very much as an actor is aware of the
dim audience beyond the barrier of the footlights. ”
“You know all?”
“Your sister has told me. If he decided to
watch television upstairs with his mother, she would
probably retire before he did, but she was a light sleeper. He met her eyes with his fiery
black gaze. Loneliness—something that was almost physical: as if the vitality had been
taken out of the air she breathed. ”
The cab rumbled off.
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