“I had a visit from Sir John in my rooms,” she said. Why? While the
front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of
underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as
much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back
chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?”
His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some
secret or forbidden or impossible lover. ‘Does she need a
dowry for that?’
‘Melusine believes so, and that is what counts. As Leonardo had himself
pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the
unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who
could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them
away?
‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal
her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of
an English lady. ‘Which is why I feel sure he will
utterly repulse the girl, even if she is his granddaughter. The old man Pottiswick, still grumbling, much to Melusine’s disgust, had
gone on his errand to his daughter’s house some two miles distant. "Then, of course, you must know. Once a sick sailor drew three pictures for
me and set down every stay and brace and sail—square-rigger, schooner, and
sloop. That's one of the troubles with young folks:
they take themselves so seriously. ’
The listening soldiers began to snigger behind their hands. The Foundation’s principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. “I—I am sorry—I didn’t explain.
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