The real ‘Alcide’,” she wound up with a faint smile
across the table at him, “is here. She dragged the broken bottle
across her carotid artery, creating an inch-deep gash upon
her throat. It is bad
policy. She felt that she became more familiar with the floor
during the time that he stayed than with any particular
person. He spent a good deal more money
and time than he could afford upon the little room at the top of the house, in
producing new lapidary apparatus and new microscopic accessories and in
rubbing down slices of rock to a transparent thinness and mounting them in a
beautiful and dignified manner. She had a compartment to herself in the train from London to Morningside
Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly
have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond
measure; she sat with her knees up to her chin and her hands clasped before
them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a
lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving
out of the station, whereas she was only moving in. “Veronica!” cried Miss Stanley, warningly, and, “Peter!”
For a moment they seemed on the verge of an altogether desperate scuffle. "
At this juncture, the door opened, and Thames entered the room. "How, Sir?"
"Except by adoption. ‘You
see, Melusine, that none of our visitors were as informed as they would wish to
be.
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