[The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan]@TWC D-Link bookThe Pool in the Desert CHAPTER 2 4/15
She loathed the Symonses. She came, but not at the jerk of a wire; she arrived a week later, with a face of great propriety and a smile of great unconcern.
Harris, having got her effectually out of harm's way, shirked further insistence, and I have reason to believe that Armour was never even mentioned between them. Dora applied herself to the gaieties of the season with the zest of a debutante; she seemed really refreshed, revitalized.
She had never looked better, happier.
I met her again for the first time at one of the Thursday dances at Government House.
In the glance she gave me I was glad to detect no suspicion of collusion.
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