![]() She kept her glass dreams from him, even whilst she appeared to talk about them. ![]() ![]() She would have had a woman friend so they could brush each other's hair, and just, please God, put aside this great clanking suit of ugly armor. ![]() She thought: He is as near to a sister as I am likely to get, but he does not understand. Once she said: 'I wish I had ten sisters and a big kitchen to laugh in.' As usual, she found herself too careful, too held in. And although she might have her 'dainty' shoes tossed to the floor, have her bare toes quite visible through her stockings, have a draught of sherry in her hand, in short appear quite radical, she was too timid, she thought, too much a mouse, to reveal her gambler's heart to him. There would be no headaches then, only this sweet consummation of their comradeship.īut she said not a word. ![]() But, oh, how she yearned to discuss it with him, how much she wished to deal a hand on a grey wool blanket. She knew how passionate he had become about his 'weakness.' She dared not even ask him how it was he had reversed his opinions on the matter. “Lucinda might sneak from her own house at midnight to place a wager somewhere else, but she dared not touch the pack that lay in her own sideboard. ![]()
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