Where was the harm in letting her go? She could not get far. He was a good foster dad that had never so much as leered at her, not even once. After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. And yet he knew that his skill was equal to that of any fashionable practitioner in Hong-Kong. “And think, think”—her voice sank —“of the horrible coarseness!” “What coarseness?” said Ann Veronica. ’ ‘So did your business about marrying an Englishman seem to me,’ Gerald returned. I deemed it more prudent to send him to the Dark House than to bring him here, in case of any search after him by his adoptive father—the carpenter Wood.
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