144 I think he heard about the backpack and the spitballs finally. At Christmas he gave her a set of a small edition of Meredith’s novels, very prettily bound in flexible leather, being guided in the choice of an author, as he intimated, rather by her preferences than his own. Honestly, I never did. Despite him, it was the beauty that she had inherited from her mother they had used to gain the betrothal, and it had not been easy. But, no. "What is a family album?" "You poor child, do you mean to tell me you've never seen a family album? Why, it's a book filled with the photographs of your grandmothers and grandfathers, your aunts and uncles and cousins, your mother and father when they were little. They would suffer amazing hardships to hunt the snow-leopard; but in the Temple of Five Hundred Gods they would not take the trouble to ask the name of one! But this girl, she was alone. The drunken beachcombers; the one-sided education; the utter loneliness of a white child without playfellows, human or animal, without fairy stories, who for days was left alone while the father visited neighbouring islands, these pictures sank far below their actual importance. She possessed what he affected to despise, but secretly worshipped—the innate charm of breeding. ” Again on his way homeward from Cavendish Square he abandoned the direct route to pass by the door of Anna’s flat. “He is Annabel’s husband,” she reminded him. He lived on the seventh floor behind a winding set of hallways that towered over her in their grayness. A dark mass of wreckage, over which hung a slight mist of vapour, lay half in the ditch, half across the hedge, close under a tree from the trunk of which the bark had been torn and stripped. By now the horses would be rested and he might go as swiftly back again.
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