The condition of the rooms was indescribably filthy and disgusting; nor were the habits of the occupants much more cleanly. The man muttered something inaudible, and gathered up the reins. Lucy could see Diane’s clear dislike of her, the foster background she had come from, and the single mysterious episode with the police that had inflamed the gossips from all the corners of town. He stalked her, he stared at her, he craved her, he sidled slinking and propitiatory and yet relentlessly toward her, until at last she awoke from the suffocating nightmare nearness of his approach, and lay awake in fear and horror listening to the unaccustomed sounds of the hotel. “It was unpleasant while it lasted, but it is over —and my toasted scones are delicious. He had not to wait long. The latter looked very pale, either from the effect of his wound, which was not yet entirely healed, or from suppressed emotion,—partly, perhaps, from both causes,—and wore his left arm in a sling. Manning’s feelings, and as Ann Veronica’s mind was still largely engaged with fundamentals and found no pleasure in metrical forms, she had not as yet cut its pages. “After all,” she said, “if this person will not be reasonable, I am afraid——” It was enough.
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