“I knew Miss Pellissier in Paris at the ‘Ambassador’s,’ and I know her now, but I am convinced that there is some mystery in connexion with her change of life. When she judged that she must be nearly back at the library, she began to feel somewhat dispirited. Why? While the front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?” His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some secret or forbidden or impossible lover. She sat down by the paperrack with a general feeling of resemblance to Vivie Warren, and looked through the Morning Post and Standard and Telegraph, and afterward the half-penny sheets. Trenchard was tempted to examine the contents of some of these cases, but a closer inspection made him recoil from them in disgust. He began to talk again in quick undertones that she could not clearly hear. He accepted the glass of wine, and bowed. Spurlock looked up. She had never dreamed of such decadence, never imagined that young people could be so happy and healthy. ‘What is this proof?’ ‘I will not tell you. The vast mirrored chamber, with its four little square window bays, two either side of the large raised dais that led to the French doors, was very full of company for the start of the Little Season. You told me he was going back to Newgate after supper, so I mayn't have another opportunity. This business of love is the supreme affair in life, it is the woman’s one event and crisis that makes up for all her other restrictions, and I cower—as we all cower—with a blushing and paralyzed mind until it overtakes me!.
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