The pair passed him
without seeing him, but for an instant the lamplight fell upon her
face and showed it white and tired.
Lewisham stopped dead at the corner, staring in blank astonishment
after these two figures as they receded into the haze under the
lights. He was dumfounded. A clock struck slowly. It was
midnight. Presently down the road came the slamming of their door.
Long after the echo died away he stood there. "She has been at a
_seance_; she has broken her promise. She has been at a _seance_; she
has broken her promise," sang in perpetual reiteration through his
brain.
And then came the interpretation. "She has done it because I have left
her. I might have told it from her letters. She has done it because
she thinks I am not in earnest, that my love-making was just
boyishness ...
"I knew she would never understand."
CHAPTER XIX.
LEWISHAM'S SOLUTION.
The next morning Lewisham learnt from Lagune that his intuition was
correct, that Ethel had at last succumbed to pressure and consented to
attempt thought-reading. "We made a good beginning," said Lagune,
rubbing his hands. "I am sure we shall do well with her. Certainly she
has powers. I have always felt it in her face. She has powers."
"Was much ... pressure necessary?" asked Lewisham by an effort.
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