And yet, often when alone, he wondered: had McClintock been wrong, or
had she ceased to care in that way? The possibility that she no longer cared
should have filled him with unalloyed happiness, whereas it depressed him, cut
the natural vanity of youth into shreds and tatters. She launched into a stuffy Partita
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and played it too fast. I made Hainault’s acquaintance,
stood him drinks, lent him money. Our men had him fast, held down in a chair. Also she had tried him as a dragoman and as a gendarme,
which seemed the most suitable of all to his severely handsome, immobile
profile. And the change, the
change of attitude! The way all the old clingingness has been thrown aside is
amazing. Had he not said as much at Remenham House?
She allowed him to march her through the chapel without resistance. “I am sure,” she said, “that you mean to stay until you are turned out. ’
‘I imagine it must be a relief to you, after so lucky an escape.
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