It's almost worth while
being sent to prison to have the pleasure of escaping. Aren't we
funny? And just as I was beginning to lose faith in human beings, to have
someone like this come along! It is almost as if she were acting a rôle, and she
isn't. ‘And just who is Leonardo?’
‘How in God’s name should I know?’ demanded Roding irascibly. ‘Dieu du ciel, for what do
you take me?’
‘I don’t know,’ he threw at her. ’
‘A pox on the creature,’ swore Mrs Sindlesham, clenching and unclenching
her stiff fingers. To witness this girl sewing on a loose button, flopping the coat about on her
knees, tickled his ironic sense of humour; and laughter bubbled into his throat. At any rate, here I am, and here I shall be,
twenty thousand feet above all your poison-reeking cities, up where God’s wind
comes fresh from heaven, very near indeed to the untrodden snows. He was a square-faced man of nearly fifty, with iron-gray hair a mobile, cleanshaven mouth and rather protuberant black eyes that now scrutinized Ann
Veronica. “Do you think he’s still around?” She paused
thoughtfully.
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