"The traps!" responded a bystander. "But your threats
won't prevent my leaving the room when I please, and as I please. ” Lucy sat patiently as she was
improved. I can’t explain—”
They regarded one another, each blinded to the other. An unexpected vacancy, wasn’t it? Every one comes in on unexpected vacancy. Melusine came in, picked up the lantern, and heard the library door bang open
just as the panel clicked closed behind her. How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy
face from me?
She came upon the Song of Songs—which had been pasted down in the
Enschede Bible—the burning litany of love; and from time to time she intoned
some verse of tender lyric beauty. ‘And what the devil do you mean by demanding that I wait on you here? D’you
think I haven’t enough to do handling that caper-witted female’s affairs, without
dancing attendance on you?’
‘Don’t be cross,’ begged Lucilla, much to Melusine’s disgust. “She finds lying up so much very
irksome. To-night she had a
curious feeling that she stood upon the threshold of some change. “You may not leave. The crowner's
'quest sat on her yesterday—and if she hadn't been proved out of her mind, she
would have been buried at four lane-ends. I want to be
myself. "Promise me that.
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