“Annabel,” she said, “you are my sister, or I would bid you take the flowers if
you care for them, and leave the room. “You see, her sister is married to
Ferringhall, isn’t she? and she herself must be drawing no end of a good screw
here. They incubate
and grow at phenomenal speed, their hunger is tenthousand times what our greatest hunger could ever be. "
"Why, surely you don't think your guests would steal them," observed Rachel,
archly. She could
feel his breath on her skin, every hair on her arms and
neck raised in response. To-morrow night
—or rather to-night, for we are fast verging on another day—I propose to lure
him out of the house by a stratagem which I am sure will prove infallible; and,
then, what so easy as to knock him on the head. ”
She shook her head. ”
She eyed him scornfully. But still
she knew they were not right, and at times they became a horrible obsession as
of something waiting for her round the corner. ”
Sir John clutched at the table with both hands.
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