In the subdued light she could not tell
whether he was asleep or awake. ’ She struck her
hands together. Sheppard, "and, if it please
you to visit your indignation on any one let it be upon me, and not on your
excellent husband, whose only fault is in having bestowed his charity upon so
unworthy an object as myself. But at this, he halted, turning his frowning gaze back on her. Sebastian administered bitter tonics to her, fluids she
could not taste with her swollen tongue. “Good God!” he exclaimed. How did you meet him?’
‘He was wounded and came to the convent for sanctuary,’ Melusine told him,
stung by his criticism into revealing more than she had intended. The assemblage which was gathered together was almost countless. “Why on earth did you TELL me?” he cried. "Why?
Because I love her! Because I loved her at the start, but was too big a fool to
know it!"
His own astonishment was quite equal to McClintock's. Stanley,
putting his hands on the table in the manner rather of a barrister than a solicitor,
and regarding her balefully through his glasses with quite undisguised animosity,
asked, “And may I presume to inquire, then, what you mean to do?—how do
you propose to live?”
“I shall live,” sobbed Ann Veronica.
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