“Why not? They tell me that London is impossible till after ten, and I want my first impressions to be favourable. He had known she would be shocked, but he was equally certain Melusine would have refused to see her grandfather had she been forewarned. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. He had already shown the covering envelope and its instructions to Ruth, and she had ignored or misunderstood the warning. "You may die afterwards as soon as you please," retorted Jonathan; "but live till then you shall. The City worried him a good deal, and what energy he had left over he spent partly in golf, a game he treated very seriously, and partly in the practices of microscopic petrography.
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