”
He came and stood on the hearthrug close to her. All the rest is humbug and
delicacy. His obtuse hands punched
and jabbed at her uselessly, then he throttled her neck
with the last of his strength. Here was the place behind the shed
where she had used to hide from Roddy’s persecutions, and here the border of
herbaceous perennials under whose stems was fairyland. Stanley,
putting his hands on the table in the manner rather of a barrister than a solicitor,
and regarding her balefully through his glasses with quite undisguised animosity,
asked, “And may I presume to inquire, then, what you mean to do?—how do
you propose to live?”
“I shall live,” sobbed Ann Veronica. Here were the passionate
lovers! What their past had been he neither cared nor craved to know. And yet, often when alone, he wondered: had McClintock been wrong, or
had she ceased to care in that way? The possibility that she no longer cared
should have filled him with unalloyed happiness, whereas it depressed him, cut
the natural vanity of youth into shreds and tatters. "What I said about natural children doesn't apply to you. But he was a thief, a fugitive from justice. The infant’s body, now
missing its pulverized head, was still twitching among the
blood-soaked ruins of corpses.
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