He was alert, well-groomed, and yet—perhaps in contrast with the more volatile French type—there was a suggestion of weight about him, not to say heaviness. Her glance, absorbing the gilt letters and their significance, communicated to her poised body a species of paralysis. “But that’s quite different,” replied Anna. "But your dreadful projects will recoil on your own head. I do not know how I shall get it, but I must, you understand. This did not tickle his vanity; on the contrary, it enlivened his terror, which is a phase of fascination. “And, after all, I am just one common person!” She watched the throb of the arteries in the stem of her neck, and put her hand at last gently and almost timidly to where her heart beat beneath her breast. ’ His face changed, all the humour and tenderness leaving it in an instant. And from that point they went on to a thoroughly embittering wrangle. Throughout the afternoon, while the doctor was giving her the first lesson out of his profound knowledge of life, her interest would break away continually, despite her honest efforts to pin it down to the facts so patiently elucidated for her. Chapter XXIV A CASE FOR THE POLICE After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. Already the seed of a tender dream was stirring. You do not believe his statement?" "I do not," replied Winifred. Accepting his glass from the butler, Gerald glanced at Mrs Sindlesham and saw a dimple peep out.
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