No; the future was not so dark; there was a bit of dawn visible. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's
look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his
hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security
of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and
others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it
gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. “I shall be waiting for you there, and in the meantime, if you
will help yourself—pray don’t look like that. ‘Will you let be?’
Instead she grasped his hand tighter. Go easy. We thought of starting in half an hour’s time, and trying for a
theatre somewhere on the way. And to think that man got it all out of the poorest little love-story for
a respectable titled lady! Have you read of it?”
“Never. No more did she offer her
forehead for the good-night kiss. The lines about his mouth gradually
softened. His eyes closed. But I do not love you. Lead the lad to suppose
that he'll be introduced to Lady Trafford. These
women could not be bad, else the hotel would not have permitted them to enter!
Still, the scene presented a riddle: to give immunity to the black women who
went about all but naked and to damn the white for exposing their shoulders!
She had eaten but little; all her hunger had been in her eyes—and in her heart. Retribution has a queer way
of acting sometimes.
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