‘Not here. The conversation turned towards the subject of the Diedermayer’s many European vacations. He disappeared into its thick doors like a magician’s rabbit. I really cared for him a little, but I am absolutely determined not to marry for some time at any rate. Come on. The idea of leaving for Mexico had become unbearable, as he was so easy to like and perhaps even easier to love. Aware of the cunning and desperate characters of the persons with whom she would have to deal,—aware, also, that she was in a quarter where no laws could be appealed to, nor assistance obtained, she felt the absolute necessity of caution. She had started wearing the dresses he bought for her, the white and blue shift he said, “brings out the color in your eyes”. She felt sleepy and unusually irritable. She felt he would tell people the way, control traffic, and refuse admission to public buildings with invincible correctness and the very finest explicit feelings possible. In an instant the expectant calm of Westminster was ended, and the very Speaker in the chair blenched at the sound of the policemen’s whistles. Why should he stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his head? CHAPTER III He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without her asking! The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. 9 <2> THE UNTIMELY DEMISE OF RAY PLOTE Later that night after the dishes were washed and the garbage taken out, Lucy and the Beck's natural daughter retired to their shared bedroom.
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