” She rang the bell, and he waited by her side until she was admitted to the tall, gloomy lodging-house. Was she so fearful still? Roding shrugged and grimaced. “I think that I will leave this letter for him,” she said. Was that it? Had she clothed this unhappy young man with glamour? Or was it because he was so alone? She could not get through the husks to the kernel of what really actuated her. He talked very little and rather absently. “I had a faint idea once that things were as you say they are, but the affair of the ring—of the unexpected ring—puzzled me. Throughout the afternoon, while the doctor was giving her the first lesson out of his profound knowledge of life, her interest would break away continually, despite her honest efforts to pin it down to the facts so patiently elucidated for her. The poet's appearance altogether was highly prepossessing. What he needed most in this hour was a bottle of American rye-whisky and a friendly American bar-keep to talk to. Lucy was sent reeling into a stone wall, which she hit with a great thud. Distress, deep-rooted, and age old. In the retrospect she was amazed to think how things had gone to pieces, for at the outset she had been quite prepared to go home again upon terms. For the first time in her life she had heard music; the door to enchanted sounds had been flung wide. “I think,” she said, “that I would rather not have anything to say about that man. Gerald, meanwhile, was off hunting up these lawyers, together with your son, ma’am—’ turning to Mrs Sindlesham ‘—and you know the outcome of that.
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