The door leading to the front of the house was stealthily opening. ” “That’s rather a fine sort of holiday!” He made no answer for three or four seconds. These fellows must be right,” he added thoughtfully, “and yet—there’s a mystery somewhere. Was the young lady impatient for experience? Was she adventurous? As a man of the world he did not think it becoming to accept maidenly calm as anything more than a mask. “And by what right do you do anything of the sort?” “No right at all,” he admitted. I didn’t know he had Italian relatives. But, it can't be helped. He insisted once again on opening the car door for her. Her roving eagerness was at all times shaded with shyness, reserve, repression. But come in, dear. A row of magnificent, and even then venerable, elms threw their broad arms over this pleasant spot. They smelled good, but they no longer smelled like food. After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. The Dawn Pearl; how well they had named her! The pearl without price—his and not his! He took her arm and drew it under his; and together they went down the veranda steps. Lucy sized up the girl.
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