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Updated: June 10, 2025
My past suspense in the darkened room with Lucilla seemed to be a mere trifle by comparison with the keener anxieties which I suffered now. I saw Grosse's eyes glaring discontentedly at me through his spectacles. He had good reason to look at me as he did I had never before been so stupid and so disagreeable in all my life. Towards the end of the dinner, there came news from Browndown at last.
After looking all round the room, he suddenly addressed himself to me. "Madame Pratolungo!" he exclaimed. "What has become of Jicks?" I had completely forgotten the child. I too looked round the room, and satisfied myself that she had really disappeared. Mrs. Finch, observing our astonishment, timidly enlightened us. The maternal eye had seen Jicks slip out cunningly at Herr Grosse's heels.
Later on the same day, she had secretly left Ramsgate; and Grosse's letter proved that she had not been near her surgical attendant since. Weary as I was after the journey, this miserable news kept me waking long after I had gone to my bed. The next morning, I was up with the servants impatient to start for London, by the first train. On the Way to the End. Second Stage
Within a few days, I might now hope to be in England as soon as I could receive Grosse's answer at Marseilles. Under these circumstances, it would be better to wait until I could make my inquiries, safely and independently, in my own proper person. Comparison of dates will show that if I had written to the German oculist, it would have been too late.
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