Impassive by nature and training, he was
conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by
a dull background of disappointment. Swiftly he looked
back to Melusine and found she had whisked to the window, dragging a pocket
handkerchief from her sleeve and hastily blowing her nose. That boy," he added, looking
at Thames, "has his eye upon us. I'm ready to bear it all. ”
“You have nothing to tell me?”
“Nothing!”
So Annabel departed with the slightest of farewells, wearing a thick travelling
veil, and sitting far back in the corner of a closed carriage. Oh, peste, he will ruin all. She even thought that perhaps she might come to
love him, in spite of that faint indefinable flavor of absurdity that pervaded his
courtly bearing. He watched her, savoring her curious attention. CHAPTER III. Cursing under his breath,
Gerald moved swiftly across and dragged her away. Someone was coming out of the
house. “Look here,” he said, protruding his eyes;
“why get anything to do at all just yet? Why, if you must be free, why not do the
sensible thing? Make yourself worth a decent freedom. .
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