" "What's the matter?" remarked Kneebone, addressing Sheppard, who, as he caught the single but piercing eye of Jackson fixed upon him, started and trembled. So far as the eye could reach, the white level road, with its fringe of elm-trees, was empty. Besides, your remark is not in the least complimentary. She listened with dumb fear in her eyes. I hate this part of the world. That day Gerald had brought her to this excessively careful house, where she had felt very much alone and very unlike herself. Coolly and gingerly, she kissed it as it stood at its hard angle from his body. Any man might have endeavoured to protect himself in this fashion, a man with no one to care, with an unnameable terror at the thought (as if it mattered!) of being buried in alien earth, far from the familiar places he loved. One point was that she was to wear fancy dress in the likeness of a Corsair’s bride, and the other was that she was to spend whatever vestiges of the night remained after the dance was over in London with the Widgett girls and a select party in “quite a decent little hotel” near Fitzroy Square. Always her prayers ended—'And may my beautiful mother guide me!' No. His pride, however, would not suffer him to interfere with their proceedings; much less could he bring himself to acknowledge that he had been in the wrong, and entreat Lady Trafford to remain, though he was well aware that her life might be endangered if she travelled by night. . So I've grown hard—outside. If, when he returned, he blew out the light, she would go to bed; but if the light burned on for any length of time, she would go silently to the study curtain to learn if his agony was still upon him.
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