“Rhea will
return soon. “Annabel! Why, what on earth have you been doing to yourself, child?” she
exclaimed. ‘She won’t confide in you? Now, why?’
‘Because that scoundrel Leonardo drummed it into her head that no man was
to be trusted,’ Gerald announced viciously. “To be an actress,” he said, “you require a special and peculiar temperament. She released her clutch on it as, dizzy with exhaustion, she leaned against the
back of the pew and closed her eyes, her fingers grasping out automatically for
support. Why? Because she knew him
in life, because, so long as she could remember, he had crossed and recrossed her
vision—Sidney Carton. Day after day—five, to be exact—she had returned to Morgan's; and each time
the man would understand what had drawn her, and with a kindly smile would
sit down at the piano and play. And yet—such is the buoyancy of youth—within a fortnight he began his first
novel, pretending to himself that it was on Ruth's account. Wood. He was damned if he knew what to do. “Well,” he said,
argumentatively, “it IS. She
thought of the smiles she would gather when she brought
forth his first grandson. After all,
this could never be the black sheep. She guessed Jack was
having trouble finding the right piece of carving.
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