I said, ‘It is no use your telling me about this walk and pretend I’ve been told about the ball, because you haven’t. ’ ‘I find that difficult to believe,’ snapped the general, jerking to and fro as his agitation mounted. ‘Certainly you may have me under guard. “Dreadful women, my dear!” said Miss Stanley. It was, in a way, something of a joke to the doctor: psychology and physiognomy on an island which white folks did not visit more than three or four times a year, only then when they had to. And, mind! no prevaricating—nothing but the truth will satisfy me. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. Then the work is optional; they go on their own. “I don’t see what he has to do with my coming to London?” “He—he worships the ground you tread on. Never for a moment had violence come between these two since long ago he had, in spite of her mother’s protest in the background, carried her kicking and squalling to the nursery for some forgotten crime. Mrs. "Where did I hear that before?" "Perhaps that first day, in the water-clock tower. He looked at her for a moment in a puzzled sort of way.
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