pages 324–5

These pages are from my paint erasure of Wilkie Collins’s The Evil Genius. The new text: “She stepped into / the room to make her apologies / He was a stupid man / a word of explanation / the man / refused to permit it / she returned / far removed from anger / the sooner this comes to an / end the better / A proud / sense of wrong flashed at him / he turned to / prevent it”