She could only have imagined it all.
Suddenly the woman spoke in a thick voice.

"You are the Governor's daughter?
Gideon Vetch's daughter ?" "Yes.

Mr.Gershom told me you wanted to see me." "Mr.Gershom ?" The woman's eyelids flickered and then fell heavily over her expressionless eyes.

"Oh, you mean Julius.

Yes, I told him I wanted to see you." A quiver of animation passed like a spasm over her features, and she inquired eagerly, "Where is he?
Did he come ?" "I'm here all right," said Gershom, stepping briskly into the range of her vision.
She gazed up at him as he approached her with the look of a famished animal, a look so little human and so full of physical hunger that Patty turned her eyes again to the calla lily on the window-sill, and then to the young green on the ailantus tree and the brick wall beyond.