3/17 But what? On her face the expression of anguish and ennui changed, it seemed to me, when she looked at him, into an expression of anxiety for HIM. For a moment I stood in the doorway, holding the dagger hidden behind my back. Suddenly he smiled, and in a voice that was indifferent almost to the point of ridicule, he said: "'We were having some music.' "'I did not expect--,' she began at the same time, chiming in with the tone of the other. The same rage that I had felt the previous week took possession of me. |