She looked at him curiously. ”
Part 11
They sat for a time without speaking a word, in an enormous shining globe of
mutual satisfaction. "
Sir Rowland moved irresolutely towards the door, but recoiled before a sad
spectacle. Leaving the library by the same door she had first used to
enter it earlier that day, she crossed the two little antechambers and moved on
through the rooms. ‘Do you think because you’ve managed
to pull a gun on me—not to mention several daggers and a vicious little knife—
that you can get away with it against a man who means business?’
‘Do you think that the trigger I would not have pulled, or stuck the dagger into
you, if you had not been as you are?’ she countered. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. Lucy loved orchestras, the
bittersweet tinge of rosin dust that hung in the air, the
way that the sun shone through filthy windows
illuminating the marimbas with a storybook light. "
"Who?" almost screamed Mrs.
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