Green Girl
“True, champagne was served again with dinner, after which mild sounds of celebration could be heard coming from the kitchen quarters, but in the dining-room there was no air of occasion and little conversation.Harriet sat at her husband’s table feeling rather like an importunate guest whose welcome was outstayed, and she wondered whether Duff was finding it as difficult as she to introduce some neutral topic for discussion. Was it Kitty he thought of with that brooding air of abstraction, or th...e lovely Samantha?“At your old tricks, Harriet?” he said suddenly from the other end of the table, and she jumped guiltily. “You’ve already made one false assumption from meddling with the past—don’t go dreaming up any more fairy-tales.”He spoke quite casually, but she had the impression he was warning her, against what she could not for the moment imagine, but it was an uncomfortable sensation, being stripped so easily of one’s private thoughts.“My mistake over the portrait was natural, I think, and I—I wasn’t meddling,”MoreLess
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