CHAPTER XXVII
His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her
suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent
thought. If he recovers he may not
accuse her. Yet, I suppose that at
the present moment I am the most envied man in the room. “And yet I wonder whether the world ever
held such another enigma in her sex. ‘I do not know the word in English. "
"That's impossible," replied Jack. He flung aside all his talk of help and disinterested friendship as though it had
never been even a disguise between them, as though from the first it was no
more than a fancy dress they had put quite understandingly upon their
relationship. I beg that you will consider me
your friend. She was aware of him—a silk-hatted, shiny-black figure on the opposite
side of the Avenue; and then, abruptly and startlingly, he crossed the road and
saluted and spoke to her. Lucy felt her heart splinter in her breast. “Come on in, Michelle. Ruth was not a woman; she was a phenomenon. The following morning found him in the doctor's waiting room, a black cigar
turning unlighted in his teeth. We met
dissecting dogfish.
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