‘What the devil for?’ ‘Messenger,’ Gerald explained. He walked through a wide open archway, curtained with deep-blue curtains, into the apartment that served as a reception-room. Fathers are abandoning their own children at the first sign of fever or buboes, Gianfrancesco! Priests have abandoned their churches. ‘Have I not said so?’ ‘No, as it happens. Her first impulse was to fly to the window; and she was about to pass through it, at the risk of sharing the fate of the unfortunate lady, when her arm was grasped by some one in the act of ascending the ladder from without. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. The houses loomed progressively larger as one strode up the block, growing from ranch to two-story, from squat 1950's modern to stately 1890's palace. ’ ‘So that was it. I really cared for him a little, but I am absolutely determined not to marry for some time at any rate. I was rude and stupid.
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