“But why,” he said in the gasping voice of one subduing an agony, and looked
at her from under a pain-wrinkled brow, “why did you not tell me this before?”
“I didn’t know—I thought I might be able to control myself. A gust of irrational impatience blew through her being. As soon as he had delivered his instructions
to Quilt, who, with Abraham, constituted his body-guard, or janizaries, as he
termed them, Jonathan mounted his steed, and rode off at a gallop. She had traversed perhaps three bookshelves, passed across the door that must
lead to the hall, turned the corner, and was just about to reach the fireplace when
she abruptly became aware that something under her fingers had felt wrong. “You, too,” he said abruptly. She could not bear the shame of it. ‘Merci, Joan,’ cried Melusine, moving to her and seizing her hand which she
clasped between both her own for a moment, as she turned to the others.
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