’ The door closed behind them both and Gerald was alone with Melusine. Stanley, having pretended to linger to smoke, fled suddenly up-stairs to petrography, and when Veronica tapped he answered through the locked door, “Go away, Vee! I’m busy,” and made a lapidary’s wheel buzz loudly. ’ ‘That’s fortunate,’ murmured Lucilla. “It sounds too ridiculous. She despises one-piece swimsuits, she calls them ‘old hag bathing dresses’ no matter how low-cut they are. In fiction you make the Chinese secretive, criminal, and terrible—or comic. 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. ‘Jacques!’ He stopped, but he did not turn. We, ourselves, are scarcely the same we were twelve years ago. While the girl kept the patient from dwelling upon his misfortunes, whatever these were, he himself would have to keep the girl from brooding over hers. A man is so apt to—to take women a little too lightly. Spurlock halted in his tracks. “Nothing was ever done,” Miss Brett asserted, “without a certain element of Faith. CHAPTER XXI.
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