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It was as though, about three or four months back, he had, without knowing it, stepped into some new and terrible country. One feature after another had changed, old familiar faces wore new unfamiliar disguises, every step that he took now seemed to be dangerous, misfortune after misfortune had come to him, at first slight and even ludicrous, at last with Falk's escape, serious and bewildering.
But Hermann looked at me as if I had foolishly raved; and the twilight was dying out rapidly. "You don't believe in passion, do you, Hermann?" I said cheerily. "The passion of fear will make a cornered rat courageous. Falk's in a corner. He will take her off your hands in one thin frock just as she came to you. And after ten years' service it isn't a bad bargain," I added.
It was set in movement quite undiplomatically and simply by Falk's appearance in the doorway. The room was full by then and buzzing with voices. I had been looked at with curiosity by every one, but how am I to describe the sensation produced by the appearance of Falk himself blocking the doorway?
Myself, I'm for slitting the young pup's ears but later on, later on. And though I'd like to straighten out the record as far as it goes Well, as you say." For all of Captain Falk's bluster and pretension, I was becoming more and more aware that the subtle Kipping could twist him around his little finger, and that for some end of his own Kipping did not wish affairs to come yet to a head.
On the very day of Falk's arrival Canon Ronder had arrived too. Canon Ronder! How Joan was beginning to detest the very sound of the name! She had hated the man himself as soon as she had set eyes upon him. She had scented, in some instinctive way, the trouble that lay behind those large round glasses and that broad indulgent smile. But now!
Indeed, during the first weeks after Falk's return he preserved a stern and dignified silence. After all, the boy must learn that authority was authority, and he prided himself that he knew, better than any number of Oxford Dons, how to train and educate the young. Nevertheless light broke through.
"Did it really hurt you, Falk's going?" she asked, still staring at him. "Hurt me?" he cried, staring back at her in utter astonishment. "Hurt me? Why why " "Then why," she went on, "didn't you go up to London after him?" The question was so entirely unexpected that he could only repeat: "Why?..." "Oh, well, it doesn't matter now," she said, wearily turning away. "Perhaps I did wrong.
Nevertheless the transition to-night was not quite so complete as usual. He was unhappy, lonely, and in spite of himself afraid, afraid of he knew not what, as a child might be when its candle is blown out. And with this unhappiness his thoughts turned to home. Falk's departure had caused him to consider his wife more seriously than he had ever done in all their married life before.
There were, however, further, more actual reasons that Ronder should anticipate Falk's visit with deep interest.
"Yes, that's very handsome of you," he said reflectively. "But how do we know you'll do all that you promise?" Falk's white face momentarily lighted. I thought that for an instant his eyes shone like a tiger's. But he answered quietly, "Ain't my word good?" "Why, a gentleman's word is always good security." There was just enough accent on the word "gentleman" to puzzle me.
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