”
“You should have let me do this for you a long time
ago. Got detained in the City,
and——”
Then he met the fixed, breathless gaze of those wonderful eyes from the other
side of the table, and he, too, broke off in the middle of his sentence. I’ll walk over there once I change clothes. ”
So they talked on whilst supper was served, falling easily into the spirit of the
place, and yet both of them conscious of some new thing underlying the gaiety
of their tongues and manner. Prepared as he was for a dreadful shock, and with his nerves strung to endure it,
Jack absolutely recoiled before the appalling object that met his gaze. Perhaps he had lost his loved ones and was wandering over the world
seeking forgetfulness. From the centre of the ceiling hung a replica of the temple lamp in the
Taj Mahal. ‘Was this when Nicholas commended you to this Abbess?’
‘But, yes. He could not doubt it. And they could
talk, they found; and never once, it seemed, did their meaning and intention
hitch. I didn’t realize—I don’t see how I can get out of it now.
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