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Hichens, Robert Smythe, 1864-1950

"A Spirit in Prison"


If Emile knew, why did he not tell Vere what he had told her mother?
But Emile had surely shown much greater interest in Vere just lately
than ever before?
Was Emile helping Vere in what she was doing? But if he was, then he
must believe in Vere's capacity to do something that was worth doing.
Hermione knew the almost terrible sincerity of Artois in the things of
the intellect, his clear, unwavering judgment, his ruthless
truthfulness. Nothing would ever turn him from that. Nothing, unless
he--
Her face became suddenly scarlet, then pale. A monstrous idea had
sprung up in her mind; an idea so monstrous that she strove to thrust
it away violently, without even contemplating it. Why had Vere not
told her? There must be some good and sufficient reason. Vehemently--
to escape from that monstrous idea--she sought it. Why had everything
else in her child been revealed to her, only this one thing been
hidden from her?
She searched the past, Vere and herself in that past.


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