“I will make of the days and weeks one long
morning, but remember the afternoon must come. I trust you will not accuse me of discourtesy if I express my pleasure
that henceforth our ways will lie apart. ‘Might have forgiven him,’ he muttered under his breath, ‘if he hadn’t taken
the babe. Only a book detective could dope this out. Told you how it would be. "
The phrase was new, but Ruth nodded understandingly. ’
Melusine frowned, placing her hand on the letter lying on the table. Her mother had died when
she was thirteen, her two much older sisters had married off—one submissively,
one insubordinately; her two brothers had gone out into the world well ahead of
her, and so she had made what she could of her father. Miss Ellicot has spoken to you, the great Mr. D. And you see, I don’t turn my back,
and I am looking at you and thinking about you from top to toe. They
were properly brought up, and sat still and straight, and took the luck fate
brought them as gentlewomen should. Better get a dress. ’
‘Dear me. Things happen out this way.
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