One nail drives out another, it's true; but the worst nail you can employ is a coffin-nail. I have always understood that men avoid like the plague a woman with a sense of humour. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. “You were booked of course. . ‘Gad, what a mess!’ Gerald pulled free, and Melusine broke back, staring at him. I have brought disgrace upon you, and I haven’t been the right sort of wife at all. “Let go!” she gasped at him, a blaze of anger. ’ He moved to his friend and grasped his hand in a gesture as deliberately dramatic as the storytelling of mademoiselle. How old are you?’ ‘I have nineteen years, and it is quite unimportant. And in that respect they stir up one another. ’ ‘Why should Gérard care?’ sneered Gosse.
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