The door popped open with a sigh. A thing
which had mystified her since childhood, a smouldering wonder why it should
be, and until now she had never felt the urge to investigate. “I do
not wish to make impertinent inquiries into your private life. The sounds that reach the ear, and the objects
that meet the eye, are all calculated to awaken a train of sad and serious
contemplation. “Go on!”
“People talked to you in Paris about us,” she continued, “about Anna the
virtuous and Annabel the rake. "At present under the care of his preserver—one Owen Wood, a carpenter, by
whom he was brought up. “May I tell Nigel to
come and see you again? I am not here to do his love-making for him, you know. As O'Higgins signed the hotel
register, his keen glance took in the latest signatures. ’
‘But in pursuit of information, Hilary, I am prepared to sacrifice my
preferences,’ Gerald told him. But his own situation was too perilous to admit of his
rendering any assistance to the ill-fated waterman. Right now my heart is
occupied.
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