’
The reference to Major Alderley’s wounds reminded Melusine all at once of
the fight they’d had, and its consequence. The terror faded from her eyes. She recognized the cloth at once, waylaid him, and
with that directness of speech particularly hers she explained what she wanted. Say something. ’
Leaning down, she raised the hem of the petticoat of her habit to reveal a neat
little pair of boots on her feet. “I’ve fallen in love. ‘She wouldn’t tell me. But if she smiled at all it was with her eyes. She gazed steadily out of the window at that arc of glittering
lights. “Not at all. There are so many girls nowadays who are quite unpresentable at
tea, with their untrimmed laughs, their awful dispositions of their legs when they
sit down, their slangy disrespect; they no longer smoke, it is true, like the girls of
the eighties and nineties, nevertheless to a fine intelligence they have the flavor
of tobacco. Then Melusine jumped back into the fencer’s pose, on
guard, the point of the wicked blade directed towards her enemy. It needs
cultivating, I think. She recognized the
face but could not quite place it.
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