” “And if you are a millionaire like Drummond,” someone remarked, “you send round a note and ask her to come out to supper. After all there are other things. She saw her life before her robbed of all generous illusions, the wrappered life unwrappered forever, vistas of dull responses, crises of makebelieve, years of exacting mutual disregard in a misty garden of fine sentiments. ’ ‘Why should I?’ ‘Because I can’t live without you!’ ‘That is your own affair, and—’ Melusine broke off, staring at him, shocked realisation kicking in her gut. Thames said not another word, but marched boldly towards him, and seized him by the collar. The dream flowers and is harvested, and we are left by the wayside, having served our singular purpose in the scheme of progress: as the orange is tossed aside when sucked of its ruddy juice. In the pause a door could be heard opening and closing on the landing up-stairs. What he needed was not a food but a flavour; and the cocoanut taste of the chestnuts soothed his burning tongue and throat. CHAPTER V At dinner the spinsters invited Ruth to sit at their table, an invitation she accepted gratefully. The baby boy was delivered in a sea of black blood, born dead and blue, and strangled by plague.
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