Gwen—I saw Gwen the other day, and the paint’s thicker than ever. "I haven't offended you?"—not contritely but curiously. Probably the latter, for the thronging ballroom was insufferably hot. She infused menace into her voice. After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. When she was quite sure that he was gone she took her sister’s note from the mantelpiece and slowly broke the seal. She found him reclined, watching television in a small guest room hidden in a back wing of the massive house. ’ Lady Bicknacre, resplendent in purple satin, and basking in her triumphantly full rooms—for it was obvious that her patronage of the refugees had set a quickly to be followed fashion—was all sorrow and sympathy when Gerald spoke of them.
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