Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. The unequal battle went on. In a convent, you understand, one is like a servant, even if one is a lady. It’s best. He saw three people: a young man at the piano, an elderly man smoking in a corner, and a young woman reclining in a chair, her eyes closed. She took the tray with both hands, gulped, and gave way to tears. ’ ‘Better than to live at the hands of a villainous blackmailer,’ Melusine threw at him. His arm closed in around her middle and she was caught. Awful shapes seemed to flit by, borne on the wings of the tempest, animating and directing its fury. She had never even brought a friend home in her time at the Becks, let alone been asked on dates.
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