“Are you going to the Vorsack’s for dinner tonight?” “Yes, I think I’ll stop by. O'Higgins mounted the stairs, his step extraordinarily light for one so heavy. ‘You do not know how I am like my mother. When the word “FREAK” appeared scratched in the persimmon colored paint on her locker, she knew that in some fragile young woman’s mind a war had escalated from imaginary to physical. It was not only Leonardo who had instilled in her this distrust of men. How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? She came upon the Song of Songs—which had been pasted down in the Enschede Bible—the burning litany of love; and from time to time she intoned some verse of tender lyric beauty. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. His foot tapped impatiently, and he took up the papers. For a time they walked in silence. She told me the tale the other night, and I've only elaborated it. Spurling, and her now accepted suitor, resumed their seats. The curtain came festooning slowly down, the music ceased, the lights in the auditorium glowed out, and Ann Veronica woke out of her confused dream of involuntary and commanding love in a glory of sound and colors to discover that Ramage was sitting close beside her with one hand resting lightly on her waist. I don’t care! I’m glad I did.
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