Secret for a Nightingale
“he said.“I am just going to finish the packing,” I told him. As I did so I thought: This is all very mysterious. How glad I shall be to be home.As we crossed the Channel and I caught a glimpse of the white cliffs, a feeling of reality seemed to return to me. What had happened that night had been due to a blow on the head which Aubrey had received. It had temporarily changed his character. I believed such things could happen. And the purse? The purse had worried me a little. The robbers must hav...e been surprised and perhaps fearing they might have killed Aubrey dragged him away to that place, locked him in and made off.Wild conjectures, of course. But I had to try and find some solution if I was going to behave normally, if I was to delude myself into believing that nothing had changed between us. It had, of course. But I must consider my position calmly. I was married to Aubrey, bound to him; whatever he had done, I had to try to do my duty. I must not allow myself to despise him because of one incident which might have been an aberration on his part.MoreLess
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