"You are not prepared to call it life, I suppose," he answered. As he spoke he plucked a solitary gold-fish squirming and twisting out of its globe. "We'll send this one after the other—wherever that is," he said.
Genevieve, Alec and Boris are all very close friends, but at one point Alec and Boris both sought her affection, and Genevieve chose Boris. Alec is currently staying at Boris' home in France, where he is painting Genevieve's boudoir. Genevieve is also described as being prone to sudden mood swings. One day, Alec awakes from a nap to find her playing the spinet in the dark, weeping. Soon after, she develops a mysterious and severe fever, becoming delirious and suicidal. Alec then also becomes mysteriously ill and when Jack asks the doctor why his face is so pale, it reminds Alec of the Pallid Mask. Alec then succumbs to a severe fever and becomes delirious for several days.
Robert William Chambers born May 26, 1865 and died December 16, 1933; he was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled The King in Yellow, published in 1895.
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