“Remember that the man will
probably die. Which is why I wasn’t able
to see him until today. Yes, it was Manningtree
really secured your father. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. “It’s odd—I have no doubt in my mind that what we are doing is wrong,” he
said. If you don’t think it would be a social outrage, perhaps I
might walk with you to your railway station. The Wastrel wiped the blood from his forehead. The lad looked alarmed. Of what use was the temporary set-back to memory, when it
always returned with redoubled poignancy?
Then came another thought, astonishing. ‘Here, miss,’ came faintly from somewhere close at hand. You are to remain here until you are well. As it is, I'm not sorry for the blunder. “If it’s about that dance project,” he said, “it’s no good, Veronica. After these dinners they would have a walk, usually to the Thames
Embankment to see the two sweeps of river on either side of Waterloo Bridge;
and then they would part at Westminster Bridge, perhaps, and he would go on to
Waterloo.
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