She bolted awake in
the large bed which was awash in a sea of silks, furs, and
red curtains. ‘Do you at least know how he came to be in a position to cheat Miss Charvill,
and to pass off his wife in her place?’
‘In her place?’ There was no mistaking the boy’s ignorance of this part of the
tale. “I think she is the perpetrator behind several
attacks, not just the clothes stealing. That is what I’ve had on my conscience. Upon a
table, where they had been hastily deposited, on the intelligence of Darrell's
accident, lay a pair of pink kid gloves, bordered with lace, and an enormous fan;
the latter, when opened, represented the metamorphosis and death of Actæon. How did you meet him?’
‘He was wounded and came to the convent for sanctuary,’ Melusine told him,
stung by his criticism into revealing more than she had intended. “These are her rooms,” she said. "
"Right," answered Ireton. Maggot had disappeared. ‘Never fear, my love. "
"What for? What do you want of them?"
"Why, they are … yours. To her intense disappointment, she discovered that all papers had been
removed from desks and cupboards. Figg?" asked Gay. “Which one?”
“The one whose life you have been making a burden, who has been all the time
shielding her sister. CHAPTER THE THIRD
THE MORNING OF THE CRISIS
Part 1
Two days after came the day of the Crisis, the day of the Fadden Dance.
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