Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. Spurlock had seen Rollo heading for the jungle, and for some reason he could not explain the incident had bothered him. No matter how swiftly he pursued this riddle, he could not bring it to a halt. The burning topic of the Mendelian controversy was approached on one or two occasions, but avoided dexterously; and they talked chiefly of letters and art and the censorship of the English stage. “I was really interested in his stuff. I do not ask if you are entirely English, but if you say truly when you say you are at my service. By and by she heard the screen door. ‘But my poor Jacques is wounded and—’ ‘All taken care of,’ interrupted Hilary. She felt as if she had struck them unawares. “I liked him, and I never undeceived him. She donned her gloves. A slow anger burned in the man. ‘What do we do now?’ Gerald took a pace towards the girl. I know of scandalous deeds which he has done. That world of fine printed cambrics and escorted maidens, of delicate secondary meanings and refined allusiveness, presented itself to her imagination with the brightness of a lost paradise, as indeed for many women it is a lost paradise.
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