The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 2

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Dwelling Place of Light, Volume 2 by Winston ChurchillThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Dwelling Place of Light, Volume 2Author: Winston ChurchillRelease Date: October 15, 2004 [EBook #3647]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DWELLING PLACE OF LIGHT, ***Produced by Pat Castevans and David WidgerTHE DWELLING-PLACE OF LIGHTBy WINSTON CHURCHILLVolume 2CHAPTER IXAt certain moments during the days that followed the degree of tension her relationship with Ditmar had achieved testedthe limits of Janet's ingenuity and powers of resistance. Yet the sense of mastery at being able to hold such a man inleash was by no means unpleasurable to a young woman of her vitality and spirit. There was always the excitement thatthe leash might break—and then what? Here was a situation, she knew instinctively, that could not last, one fraught withall sorts of possibilities, intoxicating or abhorrent to contemplate; and for that very reason fascinating. When she wasaway from Ditmar and tried to think about it she fell into an abject perplexity, so full was it of anomalies andcontradictions, of conflicting impulses; so far beyond her knowledge and experience. For Janet had been born in an ...