His fingers closed upon her hand. The ball passed over his head, and
lodged in the ceiling. It was a neat, efficient-looking room,
with a writing-table placed with a business-like regard to the window, and a
bookcase surmounted by a pig’s skull, a dissected frog in a sealed bottle, and a
pile of shiny, black-covered note-books. Some
day older people, perhaps, will trouble to understand younger people, and there
won’t be these fierce disruptions; there won’t be barriers one must defy or
perish. It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply
and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she
could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. What would happen when confronted by
the actual? He was young; she was also young and physically beautiful—his
lawful wife. She had not nursed Leonardo for weeks for nothing. “You are persuaded to come and take part in these outrageous proceedings—
many of you, I am convinced, have no idea whatever of their nature.
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