"Of course," she wrote, "the
Guardians are inhuman, but it was a glorious sort of inhumanity.
They had a spirit--like sharp knives cutting through life."
It was her best bit of phrasing and it pleased Benham very much.
But, indeed, it was not her own phrasing, she had culled it from a
disquisition into which she had led Mr. Rathbone-Sanders, and she
had sent it to Benham as she might have sent him a flower.
6
Benham re-entered the flat from which he had fled so precipitately
with three very definite plans in his mind. The first was to set
out upon his grand tour of the world with as little delay as
possible, to shut up this Finacue Street establishment for a long
time, and get rid of the soul-destroying perfections of Merkle. The
second was to end his ill-advised intimacy with little Mrs.
Skelmersdale as generously and cheerfully as possible. The third
was to bring Lady Marayne into social relations with the Wilder and
Morris MENAGE at South Harting. It did not strike him that there
was any incompatibility among these projects or any insurmountable
difficulty in any of them until he was back in his flat.
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