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She stooped to lift their faces, to caress them with her little thin white fingers. "I don't know why I'm showing you round," she said; "you know it all much better than I do." "Oh, well, I used to come here a lot when I was little. I sort of lived here." Maisie's eyes listened, utterly attentive. "You knew Jerrold, then, when he was little, too?" "Yes. He was eight when I was five."
But she was not beaten yet, not broken down. After every fit of remorse her passion asserted itself again in a superb recovery. Her motives might not be so spotless as they looked to Maisie, but her passion itself was clean as fire. Nothing, not even Maisie's innocence, Maisie's trust in her, could make her go back on it.
Nellie led the way to the chamber known as "Maisie's room," where the youngest of the Machins was wont to sleep in charge of the nurse who, under the supervision of the mother of all three, had dominion over Robert, Ralph and their little sister. The first thing that Edward Henry noticed was the screen which shut off one of the beds.
It would have been hard indeed for Sir Claude to be "worse," Maisie felt, as, in the gardens and the crowd, when the first dazzle had dropped, she looked for him in vain up and down. They had all their time, the couple, for frugal wistful wandering: they had partaken together at home of the light vague meal Maisie's name for it was a "jam-supper" to which they were reduced when Mr.
Wix's retreat Miss Overmore appeared to recognise that she was not exactly in a position to denounce Ida Farange's second union; but she drew from a table-drawer the photograph of Sir Claude and, standing there before Maisie, studied it at some length. "Isn't he beautiful?" the child ingenuously asked. Her companion hesitated. "No he's horrid," she, to Maisie's surprise, sharply returned.
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. She knew swarms of stories, mostly those of the novels she had read; relating them with a memory that never faltered and a wealth of detail that was Maisie's delight. They were all about love and beauty and countesses and wickedness.
She crushed a pearl in her pocket handkerchief and held it to her nostrils. The pain left her. She lay still. iii In the weeks before Maisie's coming and after, Anne's happiness was perfect, intense and secret like the bliss of a saint in ecstasy, of genius contemplating its finished work. In giving herself to Jerrold she had found reality.
For, owing to the high price of women, in the land of Maisie's destiny, she poor girl never knew she was not a good one, until she found she was not a widow, although her worthless love of a lifetime was dead. Oh, the difference Law's sanctions make!
"Back at the house with Sir Claude?" Again he hung fire. "No, not with him. In another place." They stood looking at each other with an intensity unusual as between a Captain and a little girl. "She won't have me in any place." "Oh yes she will if I ask her!" Maisie's intensity continued. "Shall you be there?" The Captain's, on the whole, did the same. "Oh yes some day."
I was rather a pal of Pollock's, belonged to the same squadron and was shot down at the same time. I've been a prisoner in Germany. Just got back, in fact. As you'll understand, I'm rather out of touch. I thought you'd be able to tell me whether she still lived here." It was very damping to his ardor at this particular moment to have Maisie's matrimonial past raked up.
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