All about her, hither and yon, lay the enticing Unknown. On reflection, it occurred to him that he might, perhaps, be able to loosen the iron fillet; a notion no sooner conceived than executed. Cathy stood in the bedroom hallway in her faded blue bathrobe. Pure romantic nonsense on her part. She stood, as it were, directed doorward, with her eyes watching every movement, listening to him, repelled by him and yet dimly understanding. "Well, I'm glad she's spared this. “Well, anyhow, consider it open. “All of which doesn’t help me in the slightest degree to pay back that money. After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. ’ Gerald laughed. But he had shown no desire for information, no curiosity.
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