She was gone. They had not to tarry long. “You look great, Lucy. On his way he made a slight divergence from the direct route and paused for a moment outside the flat where Anna was now living. ‘I never met a rat what wandered about the place with a lantern, I didn’t,’ grumbled the old lodgekeeper aggrievedly. "Going to befuddle himself between now and dinner," was the comment of Prudence. "Only my darbies," returned Jack, clinking his chains. “Well,” he said slowly, “I had met you three times—before Drummond’s dinner. She came to her one day and pulled on her apron. My mind is full of ideas and images that I have been cherishing and accumulating—dreams of travelling side by side, of lunching quietly together in some jolly restaurant, of moonlight and music and all that side of life, of seeing you dressed like a queen and shining in some brilliant throng—mine; of your looking at flowers in some old-world garden, our garden—there are splendid places to be got down in Surrey, and a little runabout motor is quite within my means. It brought no coconut. Was there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray. “No!” she exclaimed. Shrinking involuntarily back into the farthest corner of the seat, Jack buried his face in his hands.
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