” “If you can tear yourself away from this delightful place in five minutes,” she answered, “I think I can get rid of the others. " He smiled at her as he smiled at death, cheerfully. Why? While the front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?” His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some secret or forbidden or impossible lover. He opened the drawer of the writing table. The place to which you went was not the English Embassy, and the whole performance was a fraud. “How could it not have hurt?” His analytical side started putting in overtime. 1. ‘Laisse-moi,’ she threw at him, her brief attack of sobs already ended, although the trace of tears on her cheeks bore witness to its sincerity. “What can you do?” she asked. It has been only the sort of nonsense which passes lightly enough between half the men and women in London. Who could say that the two weren't in collusion? When a chap like Spurlock jumped the traces, cherchez la femme, every time. " CHAPTER XX To Spurlock it seemed as if a great iron door had swung in behind him, shutting out the old world. ’ Mrs Sindlesham laughed lightly, but her eyes quizzed him. The man looked closely at Anna as she crossed the footway, and as he held her skirt from the wheel he pressed something into her hand.
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