She was civil, but she was obviously impatient to know his errand. Anna opened a cupboard and produced cups and saucers and a tin of coffee. That could signify nothing except that the doctor had a friend down there somewhere, on an island in one of those archipelagoes. She had been so busy with life that, for a vast gulf of time, as it seemed, she had given no thought to those ancient, imagined things of her childhood. "They shan't have the opportunity," replied Kneebone. ” “Not worth the trouble. A hansom stopped a little way off. Everything was very neat; it had evidently been straightened up and kept for her. "Yes; he'll suspect nothing. He looked melancholy enough, it is true. The rich, heavy food sat in her stomach like so many soft pebbles. Then Capes flittered to the hearthrug and poked the fire, stood up, and turned about. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll.
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