“Forgive me,” he said, “but I want to hear it from your sister. Deep verandas ran around the bungalows, with bamboo drops which were always down in the daytime, fending off the treacherous sunshine. She thought of leaving the Beck house less and less these days, though the suitcase remained packed underneath her creaky bed. Disappointed puppy-love, and all that. I shall now be able to test my skill. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. The curtain before one mystery was torn aside, and she saw in reality what lay behind the impulse that had led her into the young man's room. The chief influence was her awakening sense of the need of money. ‘But this Englishwoman,’ asked the man Valade, his puzzlement plain to see, ‘who was she?’ The question irritated Charvill. Buck up.
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