” Lucy said. She had set out
to get a beautiful life, a free, untrammelled life, self-development, without
counting the cost either for herself or others. ‘Home?’
‘To your family. Perhaps he had had money in the coat, back in Hong-Kong, and had
been robbed without knowing it. She was interested by the swearing of the witnesses. Supposing that was it; at least, a solution to part of this
amazing riddle? Supposing her father had made her assist him in the care of the
derelicts solely to fill her with loathing and abhorrence for mankind?
"Didn't you despise the men your father brought home—the beachcombers?"
"No. . The question ceased to be a tea-table talk, and became suddenly tragically real
for Ann Veronica. ‘You would
know more of me?’
‘I would know everything about you,’ Gerald told her, his tone at once
provocative and inviting. "I wonder if you will understand what this kindness means
to me? I am so terribly wise—and so wofully ignorant!"
CHAPTER XII
The doctor shifted his books and magazines to the crook of his elbow. "
"And why not, old saltwater?" inquired Ben, turning a quid in his mouth. “You have not feeling enough. ’
Gerald unfolded his arms and threw his hands in the air. I don’t mean I’m not a good woman—I mean that
I’m not a GOOD woman. ‘I am not a person,
Marthe.
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