[The Mayor’s Wife by Anna Katherine Green]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mayor’s Wife CHAPTER IX 3/14
The form of what? A man or a woman ?" "A man! a man!" With the exclamation she seemed to shrink into herself and her eyes, just now deprecating and appealing, took on a hollow stare, as if the vision she described had risen again before her. In spite of himself and the sympathy he undoubtedly felt for her, an ejaculation of impatience left her husband's lips.
Obligations very far removed from the fantasies of a disturbed mind made these unsubstantial fears of hers seem puerile enough to this virile, outspoken man.
No doubt she heard it, and to stop the matter-of-fact protest on his lips added quickly: "Not the form, face and eyes of a man, as they usually appear.
Hell was in his gaze and the message he gave, if it was a message, was one of disaster, if not death.
Do you wonder that my happiness vanished before it? That I can not be myself since that dreadful day ?" The mayor was a practical man; he kept close to the subject. "You saw this form between you and the lighted lamp.
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