‘He wanted me also to run away with him, and I wish very much that I had done so. He sells his daughter to a geisha or a sing-song master, and the girl is rented out until the debt is paid. It was a refusal of expediency, he said, and not an absolute refusal. ‘Possibly,’ he said. She wished she had not stood up. “My husband!” she laughed a little derisively. She was working very steadily at the Advanced Course in Comparative Anatomy, wonderfully relieved to have her mind engaged upon one methodically developing theme in the place of the discursive uncertainties of the previous two months, and doing her utmost to keep right in the back of her mind and out of sight the facts, firstly, that she had achieved this haven of satisfactory activity by incurring a debt to Ramage of forty pounds, and, secondly, that her present position was necessarily temporary and her outlook quite uncertain. ’ ‘What?’ squeaked Kimble. Ennison’s manner was certainly not one of a willing host. What else was there lurked in shadows and deep places; if in some mood of reverie it came out into the light, it was presently overwhelmed and hustled back again into hiding. His cheeks were puffy, and his eyes blood-shot. Lord Charvill champed upon an invisible bit for a moment or two, closing the gap between himself and the girl, and muttering the name to himself in an overwrought sort of way. [Illustration: Distinctive Pictures Corporation.
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