The girl and the guardsman . ziie. T was Amanda Mauds con-viction that she had leftthe house unobserved onthis sensational the supposition wasinaccurate. Edith saw hersteal across the garden and out of thelane gate. She also saw the girlreturn after an inexplicable hour;and presently Amanda took occasionto be audibly and visibly presentabout the house. Her transition to 194 THE GIRL &- THE (xUARDSMAN the house dress was one of thoseparadoxes of feminine celerity overwhich even Edith might have mar-velled had she been more alert toimpressions. The fact is that Amandas departurehad
The girl and the guardsman . ziie. T was Amanda Mauds con-viction that she had leftthe house unobserved onthis sensational the supposition wasinaccurate. Edith saw hersteal across the garden and out of thelane gate. She also saw the girlreturn after an inexplicable hour;and presently Amanda took occasionto be audibly and visibly presentabout the house. Her transition to 194 THE GIRL &- THE (xUARDSMAN the house dress was one of thoseparadoxes of feminine celerity overwhich even Edith might have mar-velled had she been more alert toimpressions. The fact is that Amandas departurehad aroused neither her curiosity norher resentment — it was absence with-out leave— for at the moment Edithwas incapable of holding a normalattitude toward anything that passedabout her. Since the initial catas-trophe of the day before, when, aftera period of wretched debate, shehad, as she believed, sent Hadleighaway, perhaps in anger, a harsh un-reality had begun to appear in every-thing that happened. Bartons firstnote re
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