She came
back with two women, one in each arm, which she threw
down like sticks as she alit onto the stone causeway. Manning told her he loved beauty, and extorted a similar admission from
her; he then expatiated upon his own love of beauty. ‘I—I mean, she were—’
‘Pretty as a picture?’ suggested Gerald. She was too delicate, too
fragile to survive out there. I have said your life is in
danger, Thames. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours.
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