Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1908 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII Pascaline's landlady took in washing, and, when Kinrace rang, she looked up crossly from the area where she was engaged over a tub and asked what he wanted. He stated his business and she told him that he would find the door on the latch and her lodger in the front parlour. Thus Kinrace entered unannounced. He received no answer to his knock, so he turned the handle and went in. The room was sordid and comfortless. There was no fire, and Pascaline lay asleep on the hard horsehair-covered sofa, evidently in an exhausted condition. The first sight of her startled him, for she was wrapped in a grey cloak that he had seen Aglaia wear; and now that her eyes were closed it would have been impossible to declare positively that she was not Aglaia. As he looked at her, Pascaline started and opened her eyes. At first she gazed at him blankly. Then realising who her visitor was, she rose to a sitting posture. "Oh! Dr. Kinrace, how good of you to come. "Why didn't you let me know sooner that you were ill?" he answered. "I would have called at once." The faint rose crept into her pale cheeks. "Ohl I couldn't--after all your kindness." "Have you seen any other doctor? " he asked. He was now perfectly self-possessed. "No, no, I am better to-day." He pulled forward a chair and seated himself by the sofa." "You don't look very well. Will you let me ascertain how you are?" He felt her pulse and asked her a few professional questions, which she answered as simply as a child. "There is nothing organically wrong with you," he said when his examination was concluded. "I'll send you round a pick-me-up. You are suffering from a kind of nervous breakdown. You and your sister are both neurotic subjects though you are entirely differently constituted from her. Perhaps som...
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