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. CHAPTER XXI. “We will try and make you happy, my dear, so that you may learn that lovemaking is perhaps a little more than your idea of a woman’s duty. “Gellett,” he called, “just come and clear up a mess, will you? I’ve smashed some things. Having heard from Thames that you were better, and that your sole anxiety was about me, I came to give you the first intelligence of my escape. ‘Ah, well, we’ll check the back and then go home. “It’s something that bothers me. "I heard his voice; but I saw them on the stairs, and durst not approach him, for fear of giving the alarm. You can trust me, Anna. ’ I don’t know what you’d call it —a sort of witchery, almost suggestiveness. Wait!" He released himself from his aunt's embrace, ran to the trunk and fetched the old coat. " Some innate sense of balance told her that something was wrong with these tales. They then took off their boots, and crept stealthily up stairs, treading upon the point of their toes so cautiously, that not a board creaked beneath their weight. ’ Gerald laughed and clapped him on the back. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear.
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