His Other Wife: A Novel — page 106: what you’re looking at

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& 98 MR. CROFT’S WARD. son, ” answered Leda, haughtily, and she swept past Rachel into the hall on to her own room. ‘“Will you follow me?” asked Croft of the motionless woman, who had not shown a sign of life from beginning to end of this scene, except in the swift, bird-like shifting of her glance from one countenance to the other. Still silent, Rachel followed Croft into the library. He fastened the door securely, and remained in conversation with Rachel during the space of an hour; after which she came out, and, re-entering the vestibule of the hall, de- sired Croft to take her through the entire building. She said : : “‘T wish to become familiar with the future home and surroundings of our child.” He winced painfully as she pronounced the word ‘‘our.” She had emphasized it pointedly. He made no sade but conducted Rachel through all the chambers, not ex- cepting the one in which Leda had shut herself. ‘«By what right do you intrude upon me?” exclaimed Leda, angrily, as Croft held open her door for Rachel’s survey of the apartment. Croft went up to her and whispered a sentence in her ear, at which Leda shuddered and grew silent, while Rachel calmly scrutinized every portion of the luxurious chamber that had been freshly and extravagantly refitted in honor of the bridal occasion to which it was devoted. Rachel remembered with an insufferable pang of jealous rage that no such compliment had been paid to her own Eomicbooks:.¢o =|