You’re a
far cry from your usual gloomy self these days. The
place pulsed with music too loud to converse above. How plainly he could see the patch of garden in the
summer sunshine and the white hollyhocks nodding above the picket fence!
*****
Ruth sat waiting for the half hour, subconsciously. Had he been sick in the mind when he had done this damnable thing? It did not
seem possible, for he could recall clearly all he had said and done; there were no
blank spaces to give him one straw of excuse. You must have repented a little, or you
would not have done that. Gerald reached out a hand to
stop her. I
knew where I would go next: Florence. “Lucy!” He whispered into her ear beneath a dusty
curtain cloud. The sun shined weakly through brief pinpricks
90
in the thick cloud cover, the weather was brewing a
storm. ’
The lady’s face came round, a puzzled frown on her brow. Mike had
suffered severe depression in his first years with the
Becks, but had grown to think of them as his natural
family to the degree that his past seemed like a distant
memory. Against the sinister, the threatening, monstrous inhumanity of the
limitless city, there was nothing now but this supreme, ugly fact of a pursuit—
the pursuit of the undesired, persistent male.
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