" "Know anything about ships?" "This kind. “A thick-set, coarse-looking young man, Anna!” she exclaimed in a hoarse excited whisper. She laughed. She would not look at him, would not think of him; when her mind wavered, then she muttered to herself in the darkness so as to keep hold of her generalizations. Her husband was prouder of her every day. Only the night before, in the dining room of the Hong-Kong Hotel, she had watched him empty glass after glass of whisky, and shudder and shudder. It was a dull, foggy day, and the atmosphere was so thick and heavy, that, at eight o'clock, the curious who arrived near the prison could scarcely discern the tower of St. Pramlay received them in the pretty chintz drawing-room, which opened by French windows on the trim garden, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net in the middle distance, and its remote rose alley lined with smart dahlias and flaming sunflowers. Why? While the front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?” His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some secret or forbidden or impossible lover. “Fancy stabbing a man for jealousy!” she thought. "By my shoul!" he exclaimed, smacking his lips, "dat ish goot—very goot. This double buffetting had sharpened her shrewdness and insight. She met the keen grey eyes of a clean-shaven man, between forty and fifty, quietly dressed in professional attire. The piece, in three movements, was short enough anyway. She had followed a bobbing white hat and gray jacket until she reached the Euston Road corner of Tottenham Court Road, and there, by the name on a bus and the cries of a conductor, she made a guess of her way.
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