She explained she was expecting an important interview, and asked that her visitor should be duly shown in. "Who's there?—Pshaw! it's only the wind. After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. Over the mantel, set into an ornately carved panel with fluted columns at each end, was a portrait of a man on horseback. She recoiled. No, this was imbecile. ‘That—that—why do you speak of him?’ ‘Because I feel you ought to know,’ Gerald said calmly, but rising and watching her closely, ‘that all your trouble may be in vain. I can't concentrate on my work. ’ Gerald let out a sigh both relieved and satisfied and repeated the name.
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