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Leith has never been a schoolmaster." And there she left it, with a faint smile in which there was just the hint of an almost cynical sadness. Since the trip to Brusa on the "Leyla" she had thought a great deal about Dion Leith, and she was very sorry for him in a rather unusual way.
Clarke, Cyril Vane, Dion, and Turkish Jane, the doyenne of the Pekinese, sailed for Mudania on the sea of Marmora, which is the Port of Brusa. On the day after the return of the "Leyla" from Mudania, Mrs. Clarke asked Dion if he would dine with her at the Villa Hafiz. She asked him by word of mouth. They had met on the quay.
He would pay to the uttermost farthing both for himself and for her. Outside, just hidden from him by the pavilion wall, Mrs. Clarke stood in the shadow of one of the cypresses, and listened. The trip on the "Leyla" had served two purposes. It was better so. When a thing must be, the sooner it is over the better. And she had waited for a very long time.
But she interrupted him inflexibly. "Going away would be absolutely useless. A man can't travel away from himself." "But I can't lead a normal life. It's impossible. Those horrible nights on the 'Leyla' " He stopped. The effort he had made during the trip to Brusa seemed to have exhausted the last remnants of any moral force he had still possessed when he started on that journey.
"La Mosquee Verte! I'll think about it. We might go for three or four days." Her warm voice sounded rather reluctant; yet her husband knew that she wished to go. "It would be an excellent way of showing your mantle to the gossips," he remarked. "But you always think of excellent ways." Two days later the Embassy yacht, the "Leyla," having on board Sir Carey and Lady Ingleton, Mrs.
She made a feature of her friendship with the tragic Englishman; she even dwelt upon it and paraded it for the pretense of blunt and Platonic friendship was the cloud with which she concealed the fire of their illicit relation. The trip on the "Leyla" to Brusa had tortured Dion. Since the episode in the pavilion a more refined torment had been his. Mrs.
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