Annabel laughed a little uneasily. ‘That is what she wants, is it?’ ‘Do you blame her?’ he said stiffly. “In it lies the secret poison he used to turn you into an Oracle. But a middle-aged man like Ramage ought to know better than to draw out a girl, the daughter of a friend and neighbor. " "And what might that be?" "Will McClintock take us both?" "You took that chance. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. He noted an ebony cane laid close to hand, which suggested she was able to get about. For a time he heard no more, and stared with stony eyes at a Book-War proclamation in leaded type that filled half a column of the Times that day. Michelle spoke to Lucy about the dinner party after the concert. " "For an old bachelor?" "A human old bachelor. I wonder if a man can quite understand that passionate feeling? It is quite a passionate feeling. She had been in the drawing-room for a few minutes before the gong had sounded, and had chattered gaily to every one. But Melusine’s own words had thrown an idea into her head. I jumped then—I was not even shaken.
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