He had no wish to drag the footman out of his
way, once he had got his questions answered. The slow stars circled on to the moment of
their meeting. ”
“If he has a key,” Ennison said, “how are you to be safe?”
“I had bolts fitted on the doors yesterday,” she answered. But it strikes me there's a nigger in the woodpile somewhere, as
you Yankees say. If only monsieur le baron had said
nothing, or perhaps instead accepted the couple as the Valades and agreed to help
them. ”
“Ah!” Sir John exclaimed. She was a clever girl, the best of her year in the
High School, and she made a valiant fight for Somerville or Newnham but her
father had met and argued with a Somerville girl at a friend’s dinner-table and he
thought that sort of thing unsexed a woman. So, here he was, on the last lap of
middle age, in China, having missed all the thrills in life except one—the war
against Death. How long has Miss Charvill been in England?’
‘Not long, sir.
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