“Alice—Alice gone dotty, and all over kids. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. In some things, in many things, you must trust to your elders, to those who know more of life than you do. ‘What?’ ‘Nothing,’ snapped Roding, with an odd look at his bride to be that Gerald could not interpret. Her head felt absurdly like one of those noddling manikins in the Hong-Kong curio-shops. . “We can,” he said, “and we will. She was to fall back amongst the ruck, a young woman of talent, content perhaps to earn a scanty living by painting Christmas cards, or teaching at a kindergarten. What you would look upon as immorality is here merely an established custom, three thousand years older than Christianity, accepted with no more ado than that which would accompany you should you become a clerk in a shop. It seemed to him that speech would be an anticlimax. Why can’t you let it be?’ Gerald grinned at him. He hoped he would get to see the two suitors face off over Lucy.
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