" He offered cigars, and Ruth got up. But after all, what did it matter whether she had secrets or not? To him she was not a woman but a symbol; and one did not investigate the antecedents of symbols. The nun on the threshold was of middle age and heavily built, her back uneven from toil and her hands roughened. “You will be so good as to leave us your correct name and address, mademoiselle,” he said curtly. “Oh, please. Moving to the shuttered window, Melusine dragged the heavy drapes back. He went to the door. ‘Who, the émigrés?’ ‘Do I speak of the English, imbecile? Certainly the émigrés. In between naps she increasingly found herself gazing at him, his large nose, his eyes circled in silvery plum shadows, his thin lips parted as he slept baring a rim of perfect teeth. She looked and felt like a fairy princess. She closed the book that she had been pretending to read and gathered her black umbrella and her backpack, a childish accoutrement she despised. And all to satisfy a succession of rapacious lightskirts. We live under man-made institutions, and that is what they amount to. ’ Captain Roding stared at her, his jaw dropping, while Lucilla hastily turned away, although Melusine caught the laughter in her face. It was in another world from that in which men will die for a kiss, and touching hands lights fires that burn up lives—the world of romance, the world of passionately beautiful things.
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