Retracing his steps, he arrived, without further accident, at the eastern platform of the starling. Then suddenly, in front of all those windows, he folded her in his arms and pressed her to him, and kissed her unresisting face. What better way to be rid of him? ‘Jacques,’ she uttered urgently. An old man with a bent back who limped in, slow and stiff, leaning heavily on a cane. That is what stands between us, if you would know—that. Possessed of you, I shall have a treasure such as kings could not boast. She turned away from the doorway of the silk loom to observe. To-morrow, when she returned to Hong-Kong, she would purchase a simple but modern dress. She shut the door behind her. And they could talk, they found; and never once, it seemed, did their meaning and intention hitch. He thought of his severe attitude towards the girl who was rightly and with contempt refusing his measured help. But the people among whom she was now thrown through the social exertions of Miss Miniver and the Widgetts—for Teddy and Hetty came up from Morningside Park and took her to an eighteen-penny dinner in Soho and introduced her to some art students, who were also Socialists, and so opened the way to an evening of meandering talk in a studio—carried with them like an atmosphere this implication, not only that the world was in some stupid and even obvious way WRONG, with which indeed she was quite prepared to agree, but that it needed only a few pioneers to behave as such and be thoroughly and indiscriminately “advanced,” for the new order to achieve itself. We must never let your father know we went.
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