Then he understood. Rather a magniloquent term, perhaps, but what else am I to say? One of these is that the most absolutely selfish thing in the world is to give way to depression, to think of one’s troubles at all except of how to overcome them. She was marvellously pretty, but he was not quite sure—yet—that it was advisable for him to sit with her in so public a place. "I have killed her," cried Jack. He stared at her stupidly, forgetting to guard against the tactics he had come to expect from her. His kisses drew deeper, he started unlacing her dress. Silence! Then Anna clutched her companion’s arm. ’ ‘She behaved like a madwoman,’ Hilary declared roundly. Something in his smile, in the cynical suggestiveness of his deferential tone, maddened her. His feet would have the firm texture of his hands.