Reluctant sinners / by Sidney Fairway.

  • Fairway, Sidney, 1879-1947.
Date:
1934
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Reluctant sinners / by Sidney Fairway. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to get undressed ; his head was entangled in figures which seemed to offer no possible solution to the financial problems of Messrs. Gattle and Post. In all the statements received in London there had been no hint of such a debacle, beyond the fact, already known to Mr. Pilson, that one of their best clients had let them down. In his pocket was a letter from Sylvia saying that she was going to stay with Lady Gebbarde. The gas went out. He fumbled in his pocket for a shilling but failed to find one. He undressed and crawled into bed in the dark. Patricia Pennyman stood on the balcony outside her bedroom window and looked at the lights of the great city crouching at her feet. It was alive. Vast illuminated serpents trailed hither and thither in curves and bold straight lines, but always jostling one another as they passed. It was a restless world but she had found peace. She looked up. A shooting star traversed the spangled bowl ; a point of gleaming light poised and fell headlong towards the nothingness beyond. Some¬ where a man was singing in a soft husky tenor to a guitar accompaniment. He was calling to the stars to testify to his constancy, but they only twinkled, for they knew. Love is so often but a flower, to be plucked, enjoyed and thrown on the rubbish heap of life. Patricia looked at her watch. Twelve o’clock ! Time to go to bed. Sylvia Bardon lazily took stock of her surroundings. The fire, neatly piled, would flicker through the night; the guard would draw criss-cross patterns on the white ceiling when she put the light out. She