“After all, why should he be surprised?” she remarked. Suddenly she understood. ‘s as mad as any of you, in spite of all his respectability; not a bit of him straight anywhere, not one bit. Diable. She dreaded leaving him for the night, but separated herself finally. To preach a fine sermon every Sunday so that he would lose neither the art nor the impulse; and this child, in secret rebellion, taking it down in long hand during odd hours in the week! Preaching grandiloquently before a few score natives who understood little beyond the gestures, for the single purpose of warding off disintegration! It reminded the doctor of a stubborn retreat; from barricade to barricade, grimly fighting to keep the enemy at bay, that insidious enemy of the white man in the South Seas—inertia. “So you come from Anna, do you?” she remarked. ” “Yes, I believe that was the name. The slim knife was wrested from her grasp, and she was flung backwards, towards the bookcases. He took his seat at the table, but leaned forward to address her. Then she cursed herself for his eyes went to the letter and came back to her face. ‘Do you need an excuse?’ ‘Oh, you know what doctors are. It was in another world from that in which men will die for a kiss, and touching hands lights fires that burn up lives—the world of romance, the world of passionately beautiful things.
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