As she came in this morning she saw that the lamp was still burning in the study; so she stopped at the door. Was there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray. “There was an accident with a pistol in Miss Pellissier’s room,” he said. At the same time he comprehended that she was as pure and lovely as the white orchid of Borneo and that she did not carry that ridiculous shield called false modesty. “I am sorry,” she said, “if you find the likeness unsatisfactory. Ah Cum was not a sailor, but he knew his water-front. The place pulsed with music too loud to converse above. It was still profoundly dark; but the wind, which had begun to blow with some violence, chased the clouds rapidly across the heavens, and dispersed the vapours hanging nearer the earth.
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