Chapter 30
chapter thirty of consequences by e m delafield this librivox recording is in the public domain epitaph they sat round afterwards in the clevedon square drawing-room all the people who had helped misguided airing alex according to their lights or again according to their limitations and who had failed her so completely in the ultimate essential pamela and her lover whispered together in the window after all you know hesitated the girl she had nothing much to live for poor alex she'd got out of touch with all of us and she had no one of her very own not like us his hand closed for an instant over hers there was no reason why she should not have come to us if-if she was in money difficulties reiterated cedric uneasily he consciously refrained from adding again violet was crying softly lying back in the depths of a great arm-chair poor alex i never guessed malden road was like that why did she go there oh poor alex you were nicer to her than any of us violet said archie gruffly she was awfully fond of you wasn't she and of the little kid
barbara hard and self-contained gazed round the familiar room for a moment it seemed to her that they were all children again sent down from the nursery by old nurse on lady isabel's at home afternoon her eyes met those of cedric who had taken up his stand against the mantelpiece in his hand his glasses which he was shaking with little judicial jerks oh cedric said barbara with a sudden catch in her voice don't you remember alex was such a pretty little girl End of Consequences by E. M. Delafield
