With a moment of inward shame he remembered his deportment towards Anna. Sheppard," said Thames. "If I escape, I will reward you. Though scarcely two hours past midnight, it was perfectly light. Was there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray. Of course she had taken the boy as her lover, acting as his muse. ” She gasped. ‘But, Gérard—’ ‘Don’t start arguing,’ he said in a tone that brooked no defiance. At the threshold of the study he bade her good-night; but he did not touch her forehead with his lips. He was not addicted to monologue, and the only audible comment he permitted himself at first upon a universe that was evidently anything but satisfactory to him that afternoon, was one compact and entirely unassigned “Damn!” The word must have had some gratifying quality, because he repeated it. “A joke! Sir John, if you had presented yourself here an hour ago we should have greeted you in pained silence. "Time to dress for dinner," said Ruth from behind the curtain. “It is a secret mission,” she declared. A creature of convenience, she could have cared less if her children were carried away by drunkards on the street. Wood's bed-chamber—it was locked, with the key left in it.
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