Explore "Mufti" by H.C. McNeile on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The following afternoon Vane turned his steps once again towards the / beach at Paris Plage. The wreckage in the hospital had been cleared / away, and there were rows laid side by side in the mortuary. Over / everyone there breathed a sense of restless excitement and fierce / anger, and Vane wanted to get away by himself. He felt that he had to / think.
For suddenly and quite unexpectedly Margaret Trent had become a factor / in his life. After long years their paths had touched again, and Vane / found that he could not turn away with the same careless indifference / as he had in the past. Though she had always attracted him, he had / never seriously contemplated the final step; he had had far too good a / time as a bachelor. And then when she had so unaccountably cooled / towards him, he had shrugged his shoulders and sought distraction / elsewhere.