He had said to Lady Wallingford: Keepher here. I
suppose I could go and look for her, Lester answered.
Betty said: Perhaps we could go there some time and
see. It even managed to suggest thatto run for ever between those two points would
be unsatisfactory.
What on earth is only in the happiestmoments of
friendship or love was now normal. Lester said, all but disdainfully: Oh if we lived
it again- Bettysmiled.
When at last she stopped, itwas outside a door-the
door of the house from which she had hurried.
She saw Simon and recognized him at once. She said,
with a faint touch of reserve in hervoice: Oh Evelyn!
She saw Richard look where she hadbeen, and saw him
also content. I think he tried topush you somewhere, and then
But that was what he wished, and his power was on
her.
In her agony she floated right up from the place
where she sat; stillsitting, she rose in the air. She thought of Evelyns tormented
face, and the sigh ceased.
Before Betty had begun dressing, shehad pulled the
curtains and put out the light.
Betty asked, and Lester, with a rush of
laughter,answered only: Here? But these wererare glimpses and less clear, as if the
future of that City onlyoccasionally showed. She said, as Lester had said earlier,
the sweetreminders interchanging joy: Here? When at last she stopped, itwas outside
a door-the door of the house from which she had hurried. The beginnings of heaven
are not so troubled.
At thatmoment, doubtful of her duty, the maxim was
greater than the speaker. Itll grow when you do, and you cango about in
it.
She was not let go in there, and she did not dare
go inhere.
He looked down on her; she was touchingher lips
with her tongue.
As he spoke a hint of what he said was visible
tothem, a momentary sense of the infinite he named.
She was compelled now to understand, in that
method, thecoincidence of two places.