“You are too good for me,” she said in a low voice. Sheppard looked round, and exchanged kindly glances with several of those who addressed him. She asked no further questions for the moment. “To be frank with you, Lady Lescelles, when your brother asked me the other day to be his wife I was under a false impression as regards his relations—with some other person. The stage manager reappeared presently, and made a speech. “We are clerks in the same bank. “I said you were”—he shouted—“NOT TO GO!” She made, and overdid, an immense effort to be a princess. ‘You have the means to take up your rightful place. The City worried him a good deal, and what energy he had left over he spent partly in golf, a game he treated very seriously, and partly in the practices of microscopic petrography. Was there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray. The father would be all steel. Yet her aunt, with a ringed hand flitting to her lips and a puzzled, worried look in her eyes, deaf to all this riot of warmth and flitting desire, was playing Patience—playing Patience, as if Dionysius and her curate had died together. But Spurlock was ever on guard, even when she fussed over his hair. I was afraid that I might be called upon as a witness.
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