” “I can’t be portentous, dear, when you’re about. ‘Why do you think I want a man ready to run to me with every move she makes?’ countered Gerald. ‘Come, Hilary. 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. I understand. "I've got to see him; but I'll be reasonable. And—the idea of committees, of hustings, of agenda-papers!” “I don’t see why the responsibility of beauty should all be shifted on to the women,” said Ann Veronica, suddenly remembering a part of Miss Miniver’s discourse. “But it makes me feel inhuman,” he added. ’ ‘Do you care to test that theory?’ Gerald suggested easily. “Yes. And the opportunity to share in your exciting adventures was just too tempting to be put aside. But the besetting evil of the place, and that which drew down the severest censures of the writers above-mentioned, was that this spot,—which of all others should have been most free from such intrusion—was made a public exhibition. ’ ‘It is so in a convent, you see,’ she explained airily.
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