Warm reality was
now so near her she could hear it beating in her ears. “You decline to help us in any way, then,” he said. Red velvet curtains
rustled under dim lights as the door shut with a heavy
snap. Days later, Sebastian found her by the lake, sobbing. “I was very foolish to have been
deceived even for a moment. He was unusually absurd and ready, and all the time it seemed to Ann
Veronica as a delightful possibility, as a thing not indeed to be entertained
seriously, but to be half furtively felt, that he was being so agreeable because she
had come back again. “But we only aid the beccamorti by giving them our
business! I refuse to pay exorbitant prices for wood
coffins and burial for lesser servants who could just as
easily be dragged into the pit! Let the dead bury the
dead!”
“You fool! It is the gross lack of sanitation you speak
of that has brought us to this very end. How long has Miss Charvill been in England?’
‘Not long, sir. ‘Parbleu, I hope that I do not have many more times to come in this way to
the house,’ she muttered fretfully. A pane of glass was shivered by each stone. “What the devil are you doing star-gazing
here?”
Ennison looked at him in surprise. His head turned
sideways towards the noise, his brows scowling. I’ve—dreads. Lucy’s bright tones pursued her. 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.
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