Why were you following Valade?’
She shrugged and turned away, moving as if to seek escape among the
bookshelves all about one corner of the room. Your maid has twenty minutes to pack your dressing case for one night, and you
have the same time to change into a travelling dress. Her thoughts were deflected from Vivie Warren by the peculiar behavior of a
middle-aged gentleman in Piccadilly. ’
‘How shocking. ’
‘I know,’ he said, smiling. . You are
much more like what I was then. The doctor turned quickly and made for the door,
which he opened and shut gently because he was assured that Ruth was listening
across the hall for any sign of violence. "The ban-dogs!" thundered a tall man, whose stature and former avocations had
procured him the nickname of "The long drover of the Borough market. But I
sent him the longest way about. The commissionaire
stood there, tall and imperturbable. But days had
now passed. ‘That was one of my own
clever stories. ”
Miss Miniver’s manner became impressive. 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.
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