’ There was a chuckle in his voice. After all, it is not long since that a Catholic nun in this country would have had to remain in hiding. ” She had not, she reflected, remembered how prominent his eyes were. But how long would she last, withering away to a desiccated pile of skin and bone? Round and round she would go. Paintings sold off the walls. He sells his daughter to a geisha or a sing-song master, and the girl is rented out until the debt is paid. In each pause she could sense his growing trepidation. “Have you any money?” “Lots,” Anna answered laconically. He learnt that his sister was privately married—the name or rank of her husband could not be ascertained—and living in retirement in an obscure dwelling in the Borough, where she had given birth to a son. For a time she looked at no more apartments, and walked through gaunt and ill-cleaned streets, through the sordid under side of life, perplexed and troubled, ashamed of her previous obtuseness. For a while they stood there, silent, motionless, staring at the doorway where still a few strings of the bamboo curtain swayed and twisted, agitated by the Wastrel's passage. “Indeed, no,” he answered.
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