” The tall young man dropped his eye-glass and smiled. Who? Could it be Gerald? Quickly, she looked back at Gosse’s face, and found him frowning. Hang the wench! Roding was right. ‘You heard Gosse—I mean, the man you know as Valade?’ ‘Clear as day, miss,’ he uttered. You needn’t be in any doubt about it. But for a long time, anyhow, we lovers have to be as if we were no more than friends. I wanted something alive. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. If anyone noticed, he did not report the event. It is with the building raised after this direful calamity that our history has to deal. There was hope for me then. Womanhood is sacred to me. “Sort of man who can see no further than his nose,” he remarked contemptuously. He took a handful of almonds and raisins that she held out to him—for both these young people had given up the practice of going out for luncheon—and kept her hand for a moment to kiss her finger-tips.
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