Melusine, her breath coming in short bursts, heard a sudden flurry of several
heavy footsteps and harsh commands exchanged. . Was the situation so
desperate that he could not pack his best things?
She had packed lightly, not wanting to weigh down the
carriage they would travel in. Arrived at the audience-chamber, he set down the light upon a stand,
threw open the door, and announced in a loud voice, but with the perfect
intonation of the person he represented,—"Sir Rowland Trenchard. Against the sinister, the threatening, monstrous inhumanity of the
limitless city, there was nothing now but this supreme, ugly fact of a pursuit—
the pursuit of the undesired, persistent male. Not Trodger. She found she was trembling at his nearness and full of a thrilling dread that
he might touch her. Set
yourself to find it out, if you will—but if you do, never dare to call yourself my
friend again. “You were born for great things,” he said huskily. She followed him about persistently, and succeeded, after a brisk,
unchivalrous struggle (in which he pinched and asked her to “cheese it”), in
kissing him among the raspberries behind the greenhouse.
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