The appearance of the new-comer was extremely prepossessing; and, after his trepidation had a little subsided, Wood began to regard him with some degree of interest. He removed his cigarette from his lips and waved it gently in the air. ’ ‘Was. Instead, he could not get beyond these minor details—why she wore the dress, whence she had come, and whither she was bound. Presently she became aware of footsteps hurrying after her, and glanced back to find Miss Klegg, a little out of breath, in pursuit. Ought she to walk into some of these places and tell them what she could do? She hesitated at the window of a shipping-office in Cockspur Street and at the Army and Navy Stores, but decided that perhaps there would be some special and customary hour, and that it would be better for her to find this out before she made her attempt. She went past three keenly observant and ostentatiously preoccupied waiters down the thickcarpeted staircase and out of the Hotel Rococo, that remarkable laboratory of relationships, past a tall porter in blue and crimson, into a cool, clear night. ’ ‘That’s better. A dog appeared unexpectedly upon the threshold. “Of course,” she said diffidently, “this is a boarding-house, although we never take in promiscuous travellers. Adventure rules, and morality—looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. 167 “True love is forever, isn’t it?” It was something a child would say, a phrase she had seen scratched on bathroom walls and maple trees, but it made her sad. " "True," replied the widow, upon whom all the terrible recollections of the day before crowded, "I know it isn't. " The head turnkey, in all probability, would have obeyed. She loped forward on unnaturally long legs and arms that swung loosely.
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