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"
Her face perceptibly brightened, as if this new mood quickly appealed
to her.
"That sounds ever so much better," she admitted, glancing up into his
face. "I have never enjoyed being scolded, as though I were a child
who had done wrong. Besides, I am quite convinced in this case I have
done precisely right. I think you would admit it also if you only had
patience to hear my story. I know exactly what I intend doing, or I
should never have given all that money away. I have an engagement."
"An engagement? Where? Is there another troupe playing here?"
She shrugged her shoulders, her hands clasped.
"No, not in the sense you mean; not the legitimate. I am going to
appear at the Gayety."
Winston stood grasping the back of the chair, staring straight at her,
his body motionless. For an instant he was conscious of a sudden
revulsion of feeling, a vague distrust of her true character, a doubt
of the real nature of this perverse personality. Such a resolution on
her part shocked him with its recklessness.


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