"
"I don't care if he is," rejoined Thames, boldly. ” The housemaid’s presence acted
as a useful restraint. ” He complained,
handing it, case and all, to Lucy. ’
‘It’s no use you being superior,’ said Roding severely. “Lighten up. “But your sister?” he asked. "
"Instantly, Sir," replied Austin; "instantly. Here would be the true test of his
strength. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met
Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the
thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but
which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom
he had just left. ”
“Sir John is an ass!” he declared. "Thames, this is no forgery. But all this business has
driven it clean out of my head. And now she insisted that she MUST leave the
chastened security of the Tredgold Women’s College for Russell’s unbridled
classes, and wanted to go to fancy dress dances in pirate costume and spend the
residue of the night with Widgett’s ramshackle girls in some indescribable hotel
in Soho!
He had done his best not to think about her at all, but the situation and his
sister had become altogether too urgent.
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