Someone bounded up the stairs, which groaned from the strain, unmistakably Mike. A short flight of steps brought him to a dark passage, into which he plunged. "I never saw the like of you! One has to guard one's actions constantly in this wicked world, if one is a woman, young and pretty. I'm having some unexpected guests. Jack submitted to this scrutiny with a very bad grace, and vehemently protested his innocence. Ah, and put him under if he wakes up. ‘You give me an excellent excuse to have in the Madeira,’ said his hostess, reaching for a silver hand bell and setting it pealing. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll. At the back of her mind, dim and yet disconcerting, was the perception that she herself did not know what she wanted. You don’t know, Anna, but when one is in danger one realizes that the— the other side of the line is Hell.
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