" "My courage gave out. It isn’t such fun as it seems. It’s made up of things as small as the diameter of hairs and big as life and death. He was conscious of a peculiar pleasure in sitting there and thinking of those few hours which already were becoming to assume a definite importance in his mind—a place curiously apart from those dry-as-dust images which had become the gods of his prosaic life. The beautiful gowns and the flashing bare shoulders and arms of the women had disturbed and distressed her. ’ ‘Eh?’ Almost Melusine betrayed herself at his startled look. She held out her hand for it, but Gerald smiled. The assemblage was for the most part, if not altogether, composed of persons to whom vice in all its aspects was too familiar to present much of novelty, in whatever form it was exhibited. I just want him, and no one else will do. You don’t wear a dinner coat with a flower in your button-hole, or last night’s shirt, or very glossy boots, nor do you haunt the drawing-room in the evening, or play at being musical. ’ Impatience overtook Melusine’s resolve momentarily. Annabel turned on the electric light and made her way into the sitting-room. He saw her, dripping with rosy pearls, rise out of the lagoon in the dawn light: he saw her flashing to and fro among the coco palms in the moonshine: he saw her breasting the hurricane, her body as full of grace and beauty as the Winged Victory of the Louvre.
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