VII
It was late afternoon when they wound up the discussion as to what d**k should do, he must be most kind and yet eliminate himself. When the doctors stood up at last, d**k’s eyes fell outside the window to where a light rain was falling, Nicole was waiting, expectant, somewhere in that rain. When, presently, he went out buttoning his oil-skin at the throat, pulling down the brim of his hat, he came upon her immediately under the roof of the main entrance.
‘I know a new place we can go,’ she said. ‘When I was ill I didn’t mind sitting inside with the others in the evening, what they said seemed like everything else. Naturally now I see them as ill and it’s.’
‘You’ll be leaving soon.’
‘Oh, soon. My sister, Beth, but she’s always been called Baby, she’s coming in a few weeks to take me
