But we must not anticipate the course of events. She saw her life before her robbed of all generous illusions, the wrappered life unwrappered forever, vistas of dull responses, crises of makebelieve, years of exacting mutual disregard in a misty garden of fine sentiments. She had treated him badly; she had hurt him and her aunt; she had done wrong by their standards, and she would never persuade them that she had done right. When he was given the telegram he flew to the Praya, engaged the fast motorboat he had previously bespoken against the need, and started for the Macao Passage, with the vague hope of speaking The Tigress. ‘What do you mean to do with her?’ ‘Just keep her talking, that’s all,’ Gerald said quickly. “I should imagine,” he said, shaking out a copy of The Times, “that it is your brain which is addled. She spoke with a certain odd deliberation carefully chosen words which fell like drops of ice upon the man who sat listening. Sheppard. She should have slapped him but she was in shock at her own thoughts of lust that arose. CHAPTER XVIII The doctor reached for the key and studied it sombrely. She smiled. ‘Burned them, one by one, right before that fellow’s eyes. Thus, in a few minutes, had this happy family been plunged into the depths of misery.
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