Her confession was still unmade. Anna looked at her curiously, and with sinking heart. Still, something had marked the
face, something had left an indelible touch. The thought did not
occur to her, for all thought had flown out of her head. I’m talking to you now as though you had all the
wisdom and charity in the world. But a total stranger, a man you never saw twentyfour hours ago! It can't be thought of. She was pleased and a little flattered by his interest and sympathy. But I was portentous, I can assure you. The family always managed to make it home for
supper, even though it was a dying custom. "
This business over, she returned to the bedside with the key. But I give you this warning, and let it sink in. Where her
husband saw only two youngsters in the mating mood, she felt that tragedy in
some phase lurked in this room—if only in the loneliness of these two, without
kith or kin apparently, thousands of miles from home. She found herself
anxious to read more of him, and the next Wednesday she went to the British
Museum and hunted first among the half-crown magazines for his essays and
then through various scientific quarterlies for his research papers.
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