THE TASK OF JIZO
X
THE TASK OF JIZO
"Why didn't he take me?" she demanded savagely of Isonna the maid that night as she was putting her mistress to bed in the adjoining room. "And quickly! Like that! I would!" She clapped her hands—and then said: "Sh! Do you think he heard that?"
The maid reassured her.
"But why is a man satisfied with a hand—even two—when by a strong arm he might have—" she stopped to sigh and to look into the round mirror which the maid was holding up to her—"all!"
"All of what?" asked the astonished maid.
"Me! This."
"Oh!" said the maid.