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For every bashful man, there must be a bashful woman," Wanhope returned. "Or a bold one," Minver suggested. "No; the response must be in kind, to be truly complemental. Through the sense of their reciprocal timidity they divine that they needn't be afraid." "Oh! That's the way you get out of it!" "Well?" Rulledge urged.
But he said, one day, that the fear of death seemed to be lifted from his soul, and that made her shudder." Rulledge fetched a long sigh, and Minver interpreted, "Beginning to feel that it's something like now."
"You don't mean," Rulledge burst out in a note of deep wrong, "that that's all you know about it?" "Yes, that's all I know," Wanhope confessed, as if somewhat surprised himself at the fact. "Well!" Wanhope tried to offer the only reparation in his power. "I can conjecture we can all conjecture " He hesitated; then, "Well, go on with your conjecture," Rulledge said forgivingly.
"I shouldn't have thought he could have stirred in the morning," Rulledge employed Halson's pause to say. "Well, this beaver had to," Halson said. "He was not the only early riser. He found Miss Hazelwood at the station before him." "What!" Rulledge shouted. I confess the fact rather roused me, too; and Wanhope's eyes kindled with a scientific pleasure. "She came right towards him. 'Mr.
Acton might have thought he was writing it!" He went away, leaving us to a blank silence, till Wanhope managed to say: "That inventive habit of mind is very curious. It would be interesting to know just how far it imposes on the inventor himself how much he believes of his own fiction." "I don't see," Rulledge said, gloomily, "why they're so long with my dinner."
Everybody I've met here to-night has asked me, the first thing, if I'd heard of it, and if I knew how it could have happened." "And do you?" Rulledge asked. "I can give a pretty good guess," Halson said, running his merry eyes over our faces. "Anybody can give a good guess," Rulledge said. "Wanhope is doing it now." "Don't let me interrupt." Halson turned to him politely. "Not at all.
Please go on," Wanhope courteously entreated. "I don't remember just where I was," the stranger faltered. Rulledge returned with an accuracy which obliged us all: "'The porter merely joined in the general uproar and shouted for the police." "Oh yes," the stranger assented. "Then I didn't know what to do, for a minute.
"Jove!" Rulledge said, "I don't see how you could stand it." "There's everything in habit, Rulledge," Minver put in. "Perhaps our friend only dreamt that he heard a dream." "That's quite possible," the stranger owned, politely. "But the case is superficially as I state it.
He was lugged in by the host, as an old friend, and was suffered by the hostess as a friend quite too old for her. Wanhope cast about for the word, and Winver supplied it: "Pull out." "Yes. But when he had found it Miss Hazelwood took it from him." "I don't understand," Rulledge said.
I could be pretty sure of finding Wanhope there in these sympathetic moments, and where Wanhope was there would probably be Rulledge, passively willing to listen and agree, and Minver ready to interrupt and dispute.
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