Robinson and Adele lovers? Of a night only? Of a week? Of how long? or did it never stop? And if for longer than tonight's coming together, how blind had she been in supposingthat there was absolutely nothing wrong and nothing else between them only because Robinson has not mentioned it. She was definitely a fool to not have seen it or even suspected it. Adele scheming and pretence of today had no doubt been successful. For tonight's seeming, she had succeeded, what did that make of their front of mere acquaintanceship for public consumption? For Ariel and and Amy’s deception? A cruel sham.
It was dark again. Tertio came back, reporting that the crocodile had wriggled satisfactorily to order, and the other two, indifferently apart now, arrived at opposite doors of the car. The evening's
