“But
I wish,” she said, “I had some idea what I was really up to. It did not take a mind reader to glean that she had
suddenly gained the boy’s obsessive attention. Presently he caught her puzzled glance, and recollected himself, turning
on the charm again. Chapter XXI
HER SISTER’S SECRET
“I think,” Lady Ferringhall said, “that you are talking very foolishly. The girl only smiled at him
serenely, but she laid her hand for a moment quietly upon his. The inner apartment was rather gracefully furnished with a thick, fine Turkish
carpet, a good brass fender, a fine old bureau, and on the walls were engravings
of two young girls’ heads by Greuze, and of some modern picture of boys
bathing in a sunlit pool. This
obstacle removed, he thought he might now make the attempt. Forgetting the dark thoughts of his last brush with the girl, he dropped the
dagger back in his pocket, quickened his pace, and went back into the house to
look for his hostess. ”
She awoke out of a doze, as though she had never been sleeping.
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