” The doors at the other end of the hall opened. ‘Oh, we was always in there, miss,’ admitted Joan, moving closer. How she had coveted her mother’s beauty and sought to emulate it, if only to please her. Nothing is of any concern of ours except the discovery of the man’s identity. I felt as though I had bandaged eyes. Nothing could exceed the dismay of these personages when they learnt why they had been summoned. He reappeared in street clothes, his cropped hair not even damp from the shower, fresh-faced and sweetsmelling. But he was wide awake. She had unaccountable gleams of sympathy with and liking for him. ‘If you did not want me to talk of it,’ she told him with characteristic insouciance, ‘you should not have mentioned the matter to me. The voice of the young seaman came floating down from the masthead, and the story of the immortal lovers had begun. Well one night, some of us saw him, or thought we saw him, at a café dining with ‘Alcide,’—as a matter of fact, it seems that it was her sister. He certainly bore inspection.
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