Annabel had spoken calmly enough and steadily, but his brain refused at first to
accept the full meaning of her words. “What made
you think” he said, abruptly, with the gleam of avidity in his face, “that love
makes people happy?”
“I know it must. ”
“Perhaps,” he said, “you had better let me have your key, and I will go up and
explore. The danger you put yourself in by remaining here
astounds me. She herself, and one other there, recognized the interposition
of something akin to tragedy. Why should WE hoard? We aren’t going
out presently, like Japanese lanterns in a gale. "
"Never, while I've breath in my body, Captain," rejoined Blueskin, who had
joined them. You know Martin, right? He’s that beautiful half-Chinese
boy that skipped a grade and has an I. Still he had a decent look,
and decidedly the air of one well-to-do in the world. “You’ll get me to allude to it, but you’d have to torture
me to admit it. "
Her attitude now entirely sisterly, he ceased to be afraid of her; there was never
anything in her eyes (so far as he could see) but friendly interest in all he said or
did. ’
‘Certainly he is not a friend,’ Melusine agreed, ‘but he has gone, after all. S.
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