But now it was all over, and Alice was getting on well. If, when he returned, he blew out the light, she would go to bed; but if the light burned on for any length of time, she would go silently to the study curtain to learn if his agony was still upon him. She made a few protests, a few excuses for her action in accepting him, a few lame explanations, but he did not heed them or care for them. Kneebone begged him to take the prisoner into the churchyard. “Oh, it is okay. And as these things should always be treated as matters of business, I'll just draw up a memorandum of our arrangement. But we're neglecting the punch all this time. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. I mentioned sixty, I believe, when I was in Paris, but there are expenses, and just now business is bad. ‘That’s what started the fracas,’ Gerald admitted ruefully, nursing his injured hand as he recalled it. They could no longer stay in one place.
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