‘Maybe not,’ Gerald conceded, ‘but I’m damned if I herald my approach with
a lot of unnecessary blundering about in the dark. But there was nothing in her bearing that a
passer-by would have noted, to tell of the excitement that possessed her. “I wonder what you could do?” he said. A fine doctor from the Arte de Medici e Speziali was
commissioned directly from Rome to oversee her care. ‘God loves you, even if your father didn’t. It was at his side below the
breast, hidden by the dark colour of his close-fitting jacket. ’
‘What young lady?’ demanded a voice from the back of the hall. ‘What is it that you told him?’
‘Nothing, miss, I swear. The nun on the threshold was of middle age and heavily
built, her back uneven from toil and her hands roughened. ’
‘Pah! Do you think I will run away? Do not be so foolish, and go and fetch
him this instant. And now take
away those cards, and never let me see them again. She thought about just asking him to take
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her to his place and get it over with, but she reconsidered
and decided to attempt to get to know him better. Since her husband
has laid me under such a weight of obligation, I couldn't, in honour, continue—
hem!" and he took another explanatory pinch. "
"I will.
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