I can’t explain—” They regarded one another, each blinded to the other. “Annabel,” she said, “I have never asked you for your confidence. Mike was already on dishwasher duty when John rang the doorbell. . Immediately he was gone, she regretted that she had not followed. "I'll be very glad to take that kind of a job, if you can find it. Hitherto it had been qualified by her conception of all life as a compromise, by her new effort to be unexacting of life. In addition to my public salary I have a certain private property and further expectations through my aunt, so that I can offer you a life of wide and generous refinement, travel, books, discussion, and easy relations with a circle of clever and brilliant and thoughtful people with whom my literary work has brought me into contact, and of which, seeing me only as you have done alone in Morningside Park, you can have no idea. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of determined women at war with the universe. ’ ‘Unless it is Captain Roding,’ put in Lucilla Froxfield from the curved back sofa on the other side of the fireplace. "I did see them on the platform of the bridge—the child and his preserver! They were not struck by the fallen ruin, nor whelmed in the roaring flood,—or, if they were, they escaped as I escaped. It was like pouring a strong acid over dulled metal. "Thanks," he said, holding out a thin white hand.
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