‘Why?’
‘Why take me to France? Why trouble himself with me, when so easily he
could leave me to this Monsieur Remenham to keep?’
To Melusine’s instant suspicion, Martha bit her lip, drew a breath, and avoided
her charge’s gaze. ‘That was one of my own
clever stories. "
"He then," continued the woollen-draper, "is no longer considered—"
"How, Sir?" cried Thames, advancing, "what is the meaning of your reference to
my name? Have you dared to insult this lady? If so—"
"Insult her!" replied Kneebone, rising, and endeavouring to hide his
embarrassment under a look of defiance. For a few
days he was able to relegate his conscience to the background. “We don’t let to ladies,” they
said. “Damn! Things are getting plainer. Such was the hubbub and tumult around him,
that the carpenter could not hear its plunge into the flood. Then, when the tension was getting unendurable, and she was on the verge of
speaking to some casual passer-by and demanding help, her follower vanished.
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