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Hichens, Robert Smythe, 1864-1950

"A Spirit in Prison"


"It is he! It is he! He will not allow it, and he is master here."
"Marchese--"
"I say he is master--he is master--he has always been master here!"
He came a step towards Hermione, moving as a man sometimes moves
instinctively when he is determined to make something absolutely clear
to one who does not wish to understand.
"And you know it, and every one knows it--every one. When I was in the
sea, when I saw the Signorina for the first time, I did not know who
she was, where she lived; I did not know anything about her. I went to
tell my friend about her--my friend, you understand, whom I trusted,
to whom I told everything!--I went to him. I described the Signora,
the Signorina, the boat to him. He knew who the ladies were; he knew
directly. I saw it in his face, in his manner. But what did he say?
That he did not know, that he knew nothing. I was not to come to the
island. No one was to come to the island but he. So he meant. But I--I
was sharper than he, I who am so stupid! I took him to fish by night.


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