‘His wife?
Pah!’
‘You’re saying she is not his wife?’
‘I am saying nothing. That is, if Spurlock had been
throwing money about, which was more than likely. The sing-song girls in Hong-Kong
are far handsomer. ”
They were in the elder Widgett girl’s bedroom; Hetty was laid up, she said,
with a sprained ankle, and a miscellaneous party was gossiping away her tedium. ’
‘It is so in a convent, you see,’ she explained airily. “I’m five years older
than you, and no end wiser, being a man. It never seems
to enter their heads to try and amuse their menkind. The sun never shone upon a lovelier couple than now approached the altar. The features
were indistinct, but was that not a halo of white about it? And the dark shadow
below, was that a cloak, or the habit of a nun?
Skirting the dancing, from which he had taken a breather—not from lack of
energy, but to escape the inanities of the young ladies he had partnered—Gerald
made his way to a side door in the saloon and opened it. ’
Mrs Sindlesham’s mouth dropped open. There are men in the Lowndean who laugh at
him—simply laugh at him. Marines. Let me keep you from that man’s clutches.
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