” She looked at him quizzically and shrugged. ” “Oh, neat. She snatched about in her mind. Faugh!” She took up the last morsel of roll, and held it delicately between her long slim fingers. ‘None of them means anything to you at all? How odd. Three cars were lined up in the driveway. A home MAY be a sort of cage, but still—it’s a home. Ye gods! what a wilderness it is! Every one trying to get the better of every one, every one regardless of every one—it’s one of those days when every one bumps against you—every one pouring coal smoke into the air and making confusion worse confounded, motor omnibuses clattering and smelling, a horse down in the Tottenham Court Road, an old woman at the corner coughing dreadfully—all the painful sights of a great city, and here you come into it to take your chances. For a moment her thoughts led her back to the evening when she and Courtlaw had stood together before the window of her studio in Paris, before the coming of Sir John had made so many changes in her life. But did Gerald trouble himself about her? No. It seemed to him that speech would be an anticlimax. Take your case, for instance. Ah, if I had written that!" "Don't you want to live?" "I don't know; I really don't know. Then, when the tension was getting unendurable, and she was on the verge of speaking to some casual passer-by and demanding help, her follower vanished. From this singular collection Trenchard turned to regard its possessor, who was standing at a little distance from him, still engaged in earnest discourse with his attendant, and, as he contemplated his ruthless countenance, on which duplicity and malignity had set their strongest seals, he could not help calling to mind all he had heard of Jonathan's perfidiousness to his employers, and deeply regretting that he had placed himself in the power of so unscrupulous a miscreant.
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