She would ignore him. Ann Veronica had come to the Imperial College obsessed by the great figure of Russell, by the part he had played in the Darwinian controversies, and by the resolute effect of the grim-lipped, yellow, leonine face beneath the mane of silvery hair. One morning, as he took his stand on the Hong-Kong packet dock to ambush the possible tourist, he witnessed the arrival of a tubby schooner, dirty gray and blotched as though she had run through fire. “You mean to tell me” he said, “that you have a lover? While I have been keeping you! Yes—keeping you!” This view of life he hurled at her as if it were an offensive missile. And at the sight something leaped within her. But understand me thoroughly: I am offering you this job because my friend wants to help you. They used the rope—not that a rope was at all necessary, but because Ann Veronica’s exalted state of mind made the fact of the rope agreeably symbolical; and, anyhow, it did insure a joint death in the event of some remotely possibly mischance. But … he must want to live in order that the inclination to repeat this incident may not recur. Bête, she told herself fiercely. Several prisoners were taken, but the ring-leaders escaped. “Was that before or after you became a vampire?” Michelle questioned her casually, as if it were an interview.
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