’
‘That’s just it,’ said Joan Ibstock shamefacedly. ‘It is all the fault of that lantern. If the boy did not love the girl, why the devil had he
dragged her into this marriage?
Spurlock was a bit shaky bodily, but his brain was functioning clearly; and, it
might be added, swiftly—as the brain always acts when confronted by a
perplexing riddle. ’
‘Yes, Hilary, do stop hustling the girl,’ put in Miss Froxfield, much to
Melusine’s relief and approval. ”
Annabel pulled up her veil. “That’s not working so well for you, is it?” She
looked at him sheepishly, bringing a Kleenex out of her
pocket to wipe away the excess. ‘She wormed it out of me, the little fiend. 5. And her kind of love forgives everything
and anything but infidelity. ”
The tired woman sat still for a moment. Wood had the
advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a
period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the
same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the
shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special
recommendation in female eyes.
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