H Bigguns Victorian Scientist Vol 02
The thorough written evaluation of my earlier interlude with Miss Lillian was cut short by a sharp rapping at the entry hallway door. As my subject was likely at this point lodged in my study, either contentedly, apprehensively, or blankly I could not truthfully fathom, for her general abandon of months of work and progress may have ‘reset the clock’ as it were, and her general imbecility as regards her moral and other responsibilities likely had rendered her, if nothing else, slightly bored. ...