[The Whirlpool by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookThe Whirlpool CHAPTER 7 25/35
Whether he knew her face seemed uncertain.
Hoping to escape unobserved, she turned quickly, and walked a few yards.
Before she faced round again, a quick footstep approached her, and the next moment Mr.Redgrave stood, hat in hand, courteously claiming her acquaintance. 'I thought I could not possibly be mistaken!' The carriage, having stopped for him to alight, was driving away. 'That is my sister and her children,' said Redgrave, when he had warmly shaken hands and expressed his pleasure at the meeting.
'You never met her.
Her husband is in India, and you see me in full domesticity.
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