Chapter 24

He gave them to her. She backed up against the wall in the chilly anteroom which was the only place short of outdoors that he could take her to, and began to set down dots and dashes with great rapidity. Her brows were knit, her mouth puckered, her whole aspect one of intense concentration. She paused, went on, paused again, bit her pencil, finally slashed an immense dash across the page, and tore it out of the notebook. She folded the paper, slipped off her white shoe, tucked in the paper, and slid the shoe on aga…