It’s only as if I’d begun to know you the day before yesterday or
there-abouts. ”
She had a moment of sheer panic at the thing she had done. She flung herself back into the bare little room,
cold, empty, comfortless. “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. Rather a hazardous
spot for a convalescent, and McClintock had been doubtful at first; but Spurlock
declared that he was a good sailor, which was true. ‘Must be another of her lies. Who knows?—on the analogy of “Squiggles” she might come to call
him “Mangles!”
“I don’t think I can ever marry any one,” she said, and fell suddenly into
another set of considerations that perplexed her for a time. He’s a footman who works for
the nuns and has taken up the cudgels on her behalf. There was a sharp knocking at the outside door. ’
‘Glad you’re so sanguine,’ interrupted Captain Roding. It now occurred to him that she had
always been fully dressed. Wild was formerly an agent to
the Jacobite party, but, on the offer of a bribe from the opposite faction, he
unhesitatingly deserted and betrayed his old employers. “Well, I don’t think you told him as much as that, did you?” Lady Lescelles
asked.
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