’
‘Yes, that is what he said,’ agreed Melusine, pleased to find him of so ready an
understanding. ’
‘Oh, don’t you?’ Gerald said grimly. He had
quite enough to see to and worry about in the City without their doing things. "This gentleman brings us tidings of an old friend, my dear," said the carpenter. “Why come after me after all these years, Sebastianus?
Haven’t you found any sycophants to convert, any nubile
young nymphets to bring into the cannibal flock?”
“Why should I do that if there is still the chance of
you?”
“What if there could be no chance of me? How do
you know you can have me?”
“I see your game. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew,
could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the
almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. ‘And so you sneak back,’ she threw at him, ‘like the jackal that you are. “Did I stand in the way of your going to college? Have
I ever prevented you going about at any reasonable hour? You’ve got a bicycle!”
“H’m!” said Ann Veronica, and then went on “I want to be taken seriously. ”
“But what have I done?”
“Elope! Go off in this way. She could see over a waist high stone wall into the
miniature courtyard, complete with benches only a small
child could sit upon, one which had been broken in half,
its two pieces left unjoined on the sandy ground. It was wonderful to think this thing had lived, had felt and suffered. “I know,” she said quietly, “that Paris, where she has been so much admired, is
not a good place for her. All we do
is for your good.
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