There sprang from that a
vague hope that perhaps she might extort a capitulation from her father by a
threat to seek that position, and then with overwhelming clearness it came to her
that whatever happened she would never be able to tell her father about her debt. ‘That is what she wants, is it?’
‘Do you blame her?’ he said stiffly. “—but this cannot be. Do not imagine that I cannot do so, as well as I can this Gérard. Mercifully, the Peters had moved to Rhode Island
about six months after the tragedy. She began rubbing it with her pocket-handkerchief. And who knew if the men that Gerald had posted there would follow her to
protect her somewhere else? In truth, where were these soldiers? She could not
see them, although she assiduously searched the mist-shrouded square from the
vantage point of the bay window in the large first floor room which had become
her headquarters. He will be hanged—hanged—hanged. I will ring if I want you. ‘It is what my father intended. The face that looked down upon Ann Veronica was full of amiable intention. Stanley almost liked Ramage. ‘Your master in?’ he demanded of the astonished footman, removing his
cockaded hat and handing it over. Even in the daylight, it had a sombre and suspicious air, and
seemed to slink back from the adjoining houses, as if afraid of their society.
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