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Perhaps if I explained that I was not the person who had said he would come again, but another, the man behind the window would consider me a complication, and refuse to let me pass at such an hour without a fuss. And of all things, a fuss was what I least wanted for Maxine's sake, and because of the treaty. I decided to seize upon the advantage that was offered me. "Quite right," I said shortly.
It had not been originally intended as a jewel-case, that was clear; and as Maxine's voice had rung unmistakably true when she denied all previous knowledge of it to the police, I judged that the diamonds had not been in it when the Duchess entrusted them to du Laurier.
But I tell you this, madame, he knew here" she touched her heart "he knew here, that madame looked what she is a queen!" "Absurd child!" The reproof was gentle; Jacqueline's nimble tongue took advantage of the chance given it. "And tell me, madame? He play his part gallantly Monsieur Édouard?" Never before had she dared so much; but never before had Maxine's eyes looked as they looked to-night.
Briefly, sweetly, Maxine's fingers touched his hand and then withdrew. "Monsieur, in moments I am Max!" Nothing of surprise, nothing of question came to him. He only knew that a touch, infinitely desired, had lighted upon him that a comprehension born of immaterial things was luring him whither he knew not. "You are Max, princess," he said, swiftly, "but Max suddenly made possessor of a soul!
"Then there's something you must settle with her, before you can be free." The guard was shutting the carriage doors. In another minute I should lose the train. And I must not lose the train. For her future and mine, as well as Maxine's, I must not. "Dearest," I said hurriedly, "I am free. There's no question of freedom. Yet I shall have to go. I hold you to your word. Trust me."
He had turned his back on Maxine, and volumes could not have said more than what was expressed by that abrupt stoppage of speech and turning away. The girl scarcely breathed till the man turned from the mantelpiece and faced her again. There was no trace of emotion on his face, but the trace of a struggle with it. Maxine's eyes were filled with tears.
I got out into the open air, feeling half-dazed as one of the under porters called me a cab. I gave the name of a street in the direction, but at some distance from Maxine's, lest ears should hear which ought not to hear: and it was only when we were well away from the hotel that I amended my first instructions.
"Oh, my love!" he cried. "My love!" And his arms went round her. It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation! Man, as he has existed through all time, had being in Blake's embrace; woman, as she has been from the first, lived in Maxine's leap of the heart, her leap of the spirit as the ecstasy of his touch thrilled her.
It was the perfect word, spoken perfectly; Maxine's eyes drooped in supreme content, her lips curled like a pleased child's. "Ah, but God is good!" she said, and with a child's supreme sweetness, she lifted her face for his kiss.
They used Maxine's powder and dropped it about on the tidy dresser and the floor. They brushed away only what had settled on the front of their dresses. They forgot to switch off the electric light, leaving Maxine to do it, thriftily, between serving courses. Every penny counted. Every penny meant release. After dinner Maxine and her mother sat down to eat off the edge of the kitchen table.
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