Her faith in human beings revived. The man or woman who did something for nothing always excited his suspicions; they were playing some kind of a game. Wood was unable to discover the figure of the widow, but he recognised her dry, hacking cough, and was about to call her down, if she could not find the key, as he imagined must be the case, when a loud noise was heard, as though a chest, or some weighty substance, had fallen upon the floor. The evening breeze came; the bamboo shades on the veranda clicked and rasped; the loose edges of the manuscript curled. As the wedding neared, she bought some finer things: a veal roast for supper, a single pearl for the dowry. ’ ‘I am relieved to hear it. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll.
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