" "Possibly not," replied Thames, in some confusion; "but I am not at liberty to speak. He was a man who in all things classified without nuance, and for him there were in the matter of age just two feminine classes and no more—girls and women. Whenever Jack attempted to speak, he was checked by an angry growl from Abraham; and Thames, though his heart was full almost to bursting, felt no inclination to break the silence. When she spoke, her lips twitched. Niece and aunt regarded each other for a moment over their pockethandkerchiefs with watery but antagonistic eyes, each far too profoundly moved to see the absurdity of the position. She spoke with a certain odd deliberation carefully chosen words which fell like drops of ice upon the man who sat listening. " "It's all so big and aloof. 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. ‘You know perfectly well that she is the daughter of the Comtesse de St Erme. The thought allured him, and therein lay the danger. He was not particularly grateful for the present situation. Sensitive, aren’t they?” She chuckled. The raising of twenty-five pounds was a task altogether beyond her powers. She admired and rather pitied him, and she was unfeignedly grateful to him.
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