‘Keep still, for God’s sake! Hilary will send him off all right and
tight, never fear. He needed to
laugh, but only she laughed as he chuckled weakly. She mounted the stairs of the theatrical agent’s
office with very much less than her usual buoyancy, nor did she find much
encouragement in the general appearance of the room into which she was shown. None of this by-play escaped Ruth, whose sense of humour needed no
developing. The old-fashioned dress, with its series
of ruffles and printed flowers, ballooned treacherously, revealing her well-turned
leg in silk stockings, as it snapped against her body as a mould. "
"What makes you think he has had a hard knock?"
"I'm a doctor, young lady. He gave
glimpses of possibilities. "He is all alone. "You call in vain," rejoined Thames. Pah! Damned Frenchified—’
‘If you say again,’ threatened Melusine, moving to meet him like a jungle cat
poised for the kill, ‘this scorn of a thing French, monsieur le baron, I shall be
compelled to give you this apoplexy of which she speaks, madame. "
Hastening from this heart-rending spectacle, Jack soon reached the grating that
divided the men's compartment from that appropriated to the women. “I know nothing
whatever of his friends or his home. “I wonder what he takes me for?”
When presently she got down from the stile a certain note of internal conflict,
a touch of doubt, had gone from her warm-tinted face.
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