She rose, paid her bill, and turned westwards. It consisted of a full-dress coat of brown flowered velvet, laced with silver; a waistcoat of white satin, likewise richly embroidered; shoes with red heels, and large diamond buckles; pearlcoloured silk stockings with gold clocks; a muslin cravat, or steen-kirk, as it was termed, edged with the fine point lace; ruffles of the same material, and so ample as almost to hide the tips of his fingers; and a silver-hilted sword. Her head had been shaved, and around it was swathed a piece of rag, in which a few straws were stuck. I think he got sick of us and he disappeared not one week later. Drummond smoked his cigarette meditatively. If you don’t like it, I won’t be mad, I promise. Their expression was so amiable, that it would have redeemed a countenance a thousand times plainer than hers. ‘Would you care for some refreshment? A glass of wine, perhaps?’ ‘Nothing, merci, I do not remain,’ she answered, although she did not rise. And in these crowded four weeks, what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows, only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had plucked a bitter truth—she was alone.
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