. The hymnal lyrics had never stirred her; she had memorized and sung them parrotwise. You have thought it worth while to take some considerable pains to resolve for yourself my sister’s identity. ” She rang the bell, and he waited by her side until she was admitted to the tall, gloomy lodging-house. You will find proofs of the bloody deed in his room. 1. He was also, had she known it, more than a little insincere. Mercifully, John had been sick for two of the three days of Thanksgiving week, giving her reprieve from both his presence and the machinations of Katy Pfister, who was always less active on days when he was not around. After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. Her heart ached; and that puzzled her.
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