17/46 By the way"-- she turned upon her companion--"do you know his drawings ?--they're just ripping! He must have been an awfully good artist. But I've only just got him to show me his things. He never talks of them himself." "I've never seen one. His oldest friends can hardly remember that time in his life. He seems to want to forget it." "Well, naturally!" said Helena, with an energy that astonished her listener; but before he could probe what she meant, she stooped over him: "Geoffrey!" "Yes!" He saw that she had coloured brightly. |