“It seems so unfair,” she said, “to take all you offer me and give so little in
return. He swore that I was his wife, and—I shot him,
Nigel, as his arms were closing around me. ’
She sipped at the liquid in her glass, but her eyes remained fixed, rather
unnervingly, on Gerald. It was not necessary to appease the wrath of human society; it was
necessary only to appease that of God for the broken Commandment. Her husband had caught her leaning over a precipice
into the ruins of the oubliette, and had punished her by
flogging her back with a switch. His mind was filled
briefly with psychic images of a charnel house that
danced like a spider in his head. The person caught hold of his arm, and, in spite of his
efforts to disengage himself, detained him. “I am a fool,” he said. "I was born in the South Seas and I am on my way to America, to an aunt. I suppose you came right out and asked
him about his family?’
‘Nothing of the sort. ”
“I suppose people would say that it is a matter of temperament,” she continued.
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