As time went on, she began to think Martha had been mistaken. She had,
by the magic of recollection, set the picture of the typhoon between herself and
her table companions: the terrible rollers thundering on the white shore, the
deafening bellow of the wind, the bending and snapping palms, the thatches of
the native huts scattering inland, the blur of sand dust, and those two outcasts
defying the elements. Never mind. It was a dismal and depressing sight to see a great city thus suddenly
overthrown; and the carpenter was deeply moved by the spectacle. She leaped suddenly at a desperate resolution, and in one moment had made it
into a new self. Fortescue’s steps, and encountered him with an air of artless
surprise. “Alice—Alice gone dotty, and all over kids. We fixed
that. I must finish it at home. Take me with you. And yet he knew clearly and definitely
what he purposed to do, what the future would be. The Goopes were
the oddest little couple conceivable, following a fruitarian career upon an upper
floor in Theobald’s Road.
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