CHAPTER XXVII His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent thought. ” The three men, who had arrived within a minute or two of one another, received her little speech in dead silence. The wall of the sky, the wall of the horizon, the wall behind which each human being hid—the wall behind which she herself was hiding! If only her mother had lived, her darling mother! Presently the unhappy puzzlement left her face; and an inward glow began to lighten it. He was mad. “Where am I?” he muttered. Nevertheless, relief washed over her, her body rejoicing in the afterglow of twenty years of tension released. “How shall I put the question? What am I? What have I got to do with myself?. He saw her, dripping with rosy pearls, rise out of the lagoon in the dawn light: he saw her flashing to and fro among the coco palms in the moonshine: he saw her breasting the hurricane, her body as full of grace and beauty as the Winged Victory of the Louvre. " "Oh, yes I will. That for the men lay near the Lodge, with which it was connected by a dark passage. . Yon must be mine to-night. ’ ‘That’s fortunate,’ murmured Lucilla. ‘Your wife?’ ‘My wife,’ he repeated, rising also, his smile mocking her.
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