Where was this
kindly world she had drawn so rosily in fancy? Disillusion everywhere. At the end
of two long lines of foot-guards stood the cart with a powerful black horse
harnessed to it. ”
“Bring her—here,” Hill muttered. ”
“Yes. God, I hate these stupid ear
infections! Have you ever had one?” Michelle asked. My mind is full of ideas and images that I have been cherishing
and accumulating—dreams of travelling side by side, of lunching quietly
together in some jolly restaurant, of moonlight and music and all that side of life,
of seeing you dressed like a queen and shining in some brilliant throng—mine;
of your looking at flowers in some old-world garden, our garden—there are
splendid places to be got down in Surrey, and a little runabout motor is quite
within my means. . She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. Let the law put its hand on his shoulder—if it could! But at present he
was at liberty, and he purposed to remain in that state.
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