A feeling of inexplicable awe crept over the carpenter as the
sounds died away. I am going to make a fresh
start. ‘Comment? You have then met this Suzanne?’
The woman turned a deep red. After an affectionate parting with Winifred, Thames was conducted by the
carpenter to his sleeping apartment—a comfortable cosy chamber; such a one, in
short, as can only be met with in the country, with its dimity-curtained bed, its
sheets fragrant of lavender, its clean white furniture, and an atmosphere
breathing of freshness. “You do not quite understand,” she said gently. She had,
by the magic of recollection, set the picture of the typhoon between herself and
her table companions: the terrible rollers thundering on the white shore, the
deafening bellow of the wind, the bending and snapping palms, the thatches of
the native huts scattering inland, the blur of sand dust, and those two outcasts
defying the elements. Things that you and the nuns would not
think about for—’
She stopped, biting back the words “for a young girl”. She was at the end of girlhood and on the eve of a
woman’s crowning experience. There was a trader—a man who
bought copra and pearls. You care for me a little, I know. You have watched
all the uncouth creations of my brain come sprawling out upon the canvas, and
besides, we have been companions. ’ I said. One gets drawn into things.
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