It
seemed an emblem of the ruin he had caused. It was
a gracious gesture, she thought, as he trudged to the
Beck’s humble doorstep in his stiff blue polyester
uniform. Wood; "to be sure you are! I wonder how you dare
show your face in this house, hussy!"
"I thought you sent for me, Ma'am," replied the widow, humbly. He still watched her and questioned her. And, in fact, all round the
problem you don’t know and I don’t see how I could possibly have told you
before. ’
Alderley glanced round the bedchamber. 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. ’ With
pretty imperiousness, she gestured to the bed beside her. I can vouch
for that. ’
She put in her request for this requirement immediately on returning to the
little parlour downstairs, and instantly fell foul of Captain Roding again. “Yes,” she said, “that is what we ought to do.
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