Manning,”
she said, “for a time—Will you tell no one? Will you keep this—our secret? I’m
doubtful—Will you please not even tell my aunt?”
“As you will,” he said. He fancied, indeed, that he
beheld a figure spring upon the starling at the moment when the boats came in
contact; but, as he could perceive no one near him, he concluded he must have
been mistaken. ”
“That is all very well,” said Ann Veronica, unheeded. And, for one
expedition at least, we will go up this desolate valley here to Mattmark, and so
on to Monte Moro. But she no longer felt Jacomo’s age, even if
she looked it. There is nothing but your pride which stands between us. ’
Gerald was relieved to find the girl did not attempt to run away, but meekly
allowed him to usher her into the spacious and comfortable library which was
his habitual haunt when at home. ‘What’s to do?’
‘Valade is here. But to England we will go. That dress she has on—my mother might have worn it. She sings twice a week at the
‘Ambassador’s’ and the ‘Casino Mavise’——”
Sir John held up his hand.
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