She was
always the last person to exit after the crowds had
stampeded, trailing slowly behind them like dust. “The truth!” It was a moment of awkwardness between the two sisters
—a moment, too, charged with its own psychological interest, for there were
secrets between them which for many months had made their intercourse a
constrained and difficult thing. ”
“I may have to run,” said her father, with an appeal to his watch. He
was—a millionaire. She had
once reconciled in her mind that she was happy as long as
she had him. Was not Gerald altogether on her side? He
was, even though he played games like an imbecile, a person tout à fait
sympathique as she had discovered at the outset. Once in the room, the door locked, the sense of loneliness had dropped away
from her as the mists used to drop away from the mountain in the morning. “It really is not necessary. She was
sorry for his liking her too much for his own good, but her need was too
desperate to cavil at turning it to useful account. And then the fetters, which were
still upon his legs:—how was he to get rid of them?
Tired and dispirited, he still wandered on. ”
She sat very still. I
meant to give him a drubbing. The smell of gunpowder was strong in the
room.
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