“Child!” he cried. She struggled not to be afraid. She wanted to think of him as her beloved person, to be near him and watch him, to have him going about, doing this and that, saying this and that, unconscious of her, while she too remained unconscious of herself. Now, abruptly, they were real again, though very distant, and she had come to say farewell to them across one sundering year. Her heart in her mouth, she heard his foot scrape on the floorboard and knew from his expression that Gosse had heard it too. From this perturbed state he was roused by thoughts of his mother, and fancying he heard her gentle voice urging him on to fresh exertion, he started up. Her steps slowed. She let out a wail. The Plague raced through the city and the Palazzo, consuming it like fire. "What motive have you for concealment?" he demanded. Unless—would he hide from them as he had hidden from her? It was a big house, he said. She loved her mother Marina more than any other thing in the world and could not bear to speak to her for a fortnight after being told her fate. " "How did you escape?" asked Sheppard, who, as he shook off his slumber, began to recall the events of the previous night. What are you to do with a mad mother at a time when you need all your wits to take care of yourself?" "Don't concern yourself further about me," returned Jack. She woke up choking and belching water.
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