Onlywith the touch, she knew at once what Evelyn
wanted, and she saidgently: I wouldnt go, Evelyn.
The maids words: Oh she is looking better,isnt she,
my lady? Evelyns answer was heard both by him and Lester.
She knew that that waswhat the night was to bring.
What on earth is only in the happiestmoments of friendship or love was now normal.
In the sleep from which he had come there could be nonightmares.
It is the nature of things intensely felt as
obnoxiousso to emphasize themselves.
A vague impression that he had heard some such
phrase somewhere beforepassed through him.
If even now-The telephone interrupted
him.
My girl, do you happen to realize that thisis, to
date, my best work?
No, thank youvery much, Jonathan said hastily. If
even now-The telephone interrupted him.
I could quite easily bear to get rid of it,
Jonathan answered. She knew what Simonproposed, though she did not know how he meant
to fulfil his purpose. He said, as if uttering some maxim of greatwisdom: Love is
the fulfilling of the law.
Jonathan looked at the City onthe
canvas.
If, she added,still pleasantly, you do want me to
do anything. And so I would have done, only soon after her ladyship and Ididnt
suit.
She had no power on theother; her pull was no more
than a poor indication of what she wanted.
Simonwas only an accident of a life that had not
learned to live under thatarch of happiness.
No, but I mind, Jonathan said,
seriously.
It was alargish respectable house, in reasonably
good condition. There was a pause of suspension in the wholehall.