‘What did you tell Valade?’ ‘Well, when I asked him what he wanted, he told me straight out that he had been told his wife was related to Jarvis Remenham, and he had come to see whoever lived here now that Jarvis was dead. She noticed an odd new gleam in Michelle’s eyes, a focus she had not noticed before. “You’ve got to take the decent reasonable way. Yet, here she was, in the ancient Chinese city, weaving in and out of the narrow streets some scarcely wide enough for two men to walk abreast, streets that boiled and eddied with yellow human beings, who worshipped strange gods, ate strange foods, and diffused strange suffocating smells. She had seen a man’s head steal out for a moment and draw the curtains a little closer. The two friends contrasted strikingly with each other. Years ago, when you were a girl and in the bloom of your beauty, I loved you. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom he had just left. White’s compliments. It is no good.
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