When
he recovered his mental faculties, he would lie there, neutral; they could save
him or let him die, as they pleased; and the doctor knew that he would wear
himself out forcing his own will to live into this neutrality. His idea was to get behind this sustained listlessness. ’
‘A French ghost?’
‘Well, it ain’t a rat this time, Major, I can promise you that,’ Pottiswick had
rejoined, his tone affronted. ”
“Lady Ferringhall—alone?” Ennison exclaimed. His guardian angel warned Spurlock to speak carefully. Then she stood up and looked around the room. Day after day she pounded
him with curses, saying that her mother looked down on
him from Heaven and sent a curse, to which he laughed. He would
get her to come to tea with him, usually in a pleasant tea-room over a fruit-shop
in Tottenham Court Road, and he would discuss his own point of view and hint
at a thousand devotions were she but to command him. But the
restraint exercised by her instinctive delicacy was very great; over and above
coarse or sexual matters it covered religion and politics and any mention of
money matters or crime, and Ann Veronica found herself wondering whether
these exclusions represented, after all, anything more than suppressions. The blouse dried nicely, it would only
need a touch of starch and a little ironing. ”
“You seem to have said just what had to be said.
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