A Scandal to Remember
“Jane looked across the low burning fire at Dance, who stared into the glowing coals as if they might foretell the future. After the few blissful days of sun, the wind had shifted to the southwest, and brought back the yellow-streaked, dismal dawns. In the face of such foreboding gloom, the warmth of the fire had seemed comforting.
“I know,” she hedged. “But it seems silly to think about it until the boat is repaired.”
He had gone at it with a vengeance the afternoon before, dragging woods of va...rious kinds down from the hill, and fashioning a sort of mallet with some of her collecting tools.
“What is the great hurry?”
He looked at her then, and it was as if he were suddenly standing twenty feet off instead of two, so great was the distance in his gaze. “You are a naturalist, Jane. Surely you know the natural consequence of our copulation.”
The word itself was a slap. “Copulation?” As if they were animals and had not chosen this physical intimacy, this spiritual bond with one another of their own accord and free will.MoreLess
“I know,” she hedged. “But it seems silly to think about it until the boat is repaired.”
He had gone at it with a vengeance the afternoon before, dragging woods of va...rious kinds down from the hill, and fashioning a sort of mallet with some of her collecting tools.
“What is the great hurry?”
He looked at her then, and it was as if he were suddenly standing twenty feet off instead of two, so great was the distance in his gaze. “You are a naturalist, Jane. Surely you know the natural consequence of our copulation.”
The word itself was a slap. “Copulation?” As if they were animals and had not chosen this physical intimacy, this spiritual bond with one another of their own accord and free will.MoreLess
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