32/40 She took them up to her bedroom, where she remained all the afternoon. It was right that she should know what was going to be published under Adrian's name. He said to her much the same as he had said to me before lunch, with, perhaps, a little more shamefacedness. Were it not for reiteration upon reiteration of the same things in talk, life would be a stark silence broken only by staccato announcement of facts. |