"
Ada gazed fixedly into vacancy, saying, as if lost in thought:
"No, no. That is not so. There are injuries which are incurable. The
mother of two children is old at twenty-three. Since she can no longer
offer a man the full happiness of love, she has no right to expect it
from him."
He was about to answer, but with a hasty movement she placed her
slender finger on her lip, saying:
"Hush! Not another word on this subject. Look"--and her hand pointed,
down to the park.
From a bow window in the castle a powerful apparatus was sending a
broad stream of electric light into the darkness. It often changed and
moved, being thrown now here, then there. In its course it illumined
the tops of the trees with a faint, livid phosphorescence, interwove
the shrubbery with fantastic gliding spots of light, and gave the turf,
wherever it was visible, the appearance of a strip of a glittering
glacier. In the distance, where the light was lost in the dense groups
of trees, it produced the illusion of indistinct shapes gleaming out
there for a moment and then vanishing.
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