"A secret is too valuable a commodity to be thrown away. Ann Veronica snatched at the opportunity, and spent most of the intervening time in the Assyrian Court of the British Museum, reading and thinking over a little book upon the feminist movement the tired woman had made her buy. “Afterwards,” she said, “I should be perfectly content to have everything done for me. That boy," he added, looking at Thames, "has his eye upon us. It gave her joy to see them laughing, even though she was unsure of what she had done wrong. Detention was merry for the other detainees. ’ ‘Precisely,’ Gerald repeated. But with Gosse and the woman in prison here, there is always the chance that the whole affair may be raked up all over again. The sing-song girl, her fiddle broken, was beating her forehead upon the floor and wailing: Ai, ai! Ai, ai! Spurlock—or Taber, as he called himself—sat slumped in a chair, staring with glazed eyes at nothing, absolutely uninterested in the confusion for which he was primarily accountable. For a second time Ann Veronica wanted to swear at the universe. Anna saw it, and for the first time found herself trembling. ” “I will tell her,” Anna promised. 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.
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