CHAPTER VII The astonishing collapse of Spurlock created a tableau of short duration. . He looked across at Annabel, and he groaned. “Your father,” he said, “remarked that all’s well that ends well, and that he was disposed to let bygones be bygones. “It’s best,” he said, “to make it a good round sum. The dinner was stranger than she had ever anticipated. They don’t catch on to discursive interests, you see, because they are more serious, they are concentrated on the central reality of life, and a little impatient of its—its outer aspects. We should not bar any engagements at private houses, but in other respects the arrangement must be exclusive. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency, regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. It's a sorry world," he went on. She handled it half fearfully, and set it carefully down again. "Nobody has so much cause for complaint as me," growled Austin. "You can no longer refuse to tell me the name of this youth's father, Aliva," he said. ’ Gerald cast a swift look up the corridor, but there was no one there, not even a shadow. ‘Still more would I be so if he had come himself to tell me this.
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