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One incident, however, -- trivial, yet pregnant with significant revelation, -- remained vividly outside the dream. The Play behind broke through, as it were; an actor forgot his role, and involved another actor; for an instant the masquerade tripped up, and merged with the commonplace reality of daily life. Explicit disclosure lay in the trifling matter.
They supplied a touch of comedy, but of rather ghastly comedy, ludicrous and at the same time painful -- those smart, new yellow gloves that Tony put on when he climbed into the sand-cart and took the reins. His donkey had gone lame, he abandoned it to the boys behind, he climbed in to drive with Lettice. Tom, riding beside the cart, witnessed the entire incident; he laughed as heartily as either of the others; he felt it, however, as "she" felt it -- a new sudden spiritual proximity to her proved this to him. Both shrank -- from something disagreeable and afflicting. The hands looked somehow dreadful.