aliss

Updated: July 15, 2025

"It is as if someone had suddenly turned out the light." She followed the doctor upstairs. "This was his study," the doctor explained. "I know it. I came here once," she said. They entered the big bedroom in which the coffined body lay. Dr. Martineau, struck by a sudden memory, glanced nervously at the desk, but someone had made it quite tidy and the portrait of Aliss Grammont had disappeared.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Secret Places of the Heart