As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. It was long and narrow, a well-lit, wellventilated, quiet gallery of small tables and sinks, pervaded by a thin smell of methylated spirit and of a mitigated and sterilized organic decay. She wanted him, she needed sex, but the two ideas had not formed an equation where a concrete result could be deduced. ’ Too late he saw his error. “I—I am sorry—I didn’t explain. The rest were hieroglyphic characters, executed in red chalk and charcoal. "I advise you against this trip, Mr. Don’t go back into Victorian respectability and pretend you don’t know and you can’t think and all the rest of it. ” “Change that to most, at least from my experience. The atmosphere seemed heavy with the odour of drugs. In a side-glance—for the floor was variously encumbered with overturned objects—he saw one of his paper weights, a coloured glass ball such as McClintock used in trade. ” For a fraction of a second the two young men hesitated. Very intelligent, by the looks of the books she was carrying. In Europe or in America people would have smiled; but in Singapore—the half-way port of the world—where a human kaleidoscope tumbles continuously east and west, no one had remarked her.
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