Her father was holding her waist, smiling. “Odd!” he remarked, rather surprisingly, after a little interval. ’ He shifted unguardedly, and hissed a breath, wincing. The back windows of the houses (where any such existed) were strongly barricaded, and kept constantly shut; and the fortress was, furthermore, defended by high walls and deep ditches in those quarters where it appeared most exposed. It was now a quarter past twelve. Presently she was going through a swaying, noisy crowd, whose faces grinned and stared pitilessly in the light of the electric standards. He conveyed not only his sense of the extreme want of correctitude in their unsanctioned meetings, but also that, so far as he was concerned, this irregularity mattered not at all, that he had flung—and kept on flinging—such considerations to the wind. It surprised her she hadn’t thought of it before! She tried to explain that she was going to pay him forty pounds without fail next week. You will begin to see it all opening out. Speak lower. She had had to do away with many a leering foster father since she had started frequenting foster homes in the middle of the century. She had, by the magic of recollection, set the picture of the typhoon between herself and her table companions: the terrible rollers thundering on the white shore, the deafening bellow of the wind, the bending and snapping palms, the thatches of the native huts scattering inland, the blur of sand dust, and those two outcasts defying the elements.
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