Part 8 “Why should I ever come back?” she said to herself, as she went down the staircase. Lucy felt herself go very red in the cheeks and lowered her hand rather slowly. He had just passed through a terrific physical test. She threw her arms around Rollo's neck and laid her cheek upon the flea-bitten head. Kneebone, I'll make one of the party. We have known men who have come here for no other purpose than to prove their unassailable virtue, who have strode into the arena of temptation, waving the—the what is it—the white flower of a blameless life, only to exchange it with marvellous facility for the violets of the Parisienne. Not a moment is to be lost. I offer you my assistance on certain terms. The only mercy you can show me is to kill me. There were moments when she doubted whether the whole mass of movements and societies and gatherings and talks was not simply one coherent spectacle of failure protecting itself from abjection by the glamour of its own assertions. Some Chinaman might take it into his head to shout: "Death to the foreign devils!" And out of that wall yonder would boil battle and murder and sudden death. Next instant he had her immobilised, her hands behind her back, her chest crushed to his, the white veil slipping once again.
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