”
“Why did you tell me? I thought—I thought we were going to be friends. Lucy thought of herself as belonging to Sebastian
whether she liked it or not. She was aware of it
now as if it were a voice shouting outside a house, shouting passionate verities in
a hot sunlight, a voice that cries while people talk insincerely in a darkened room
and pretend not to hear. She looked at Lucy guiltily, wondering if she
would be betrayed. ”
“What do you mean—by too late?” he demanded. 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. ‘Parbleu, the bullet is still inside you,’ Melusine guessed, remembering how
the Mother Abbess had diagnosed Leonardo’s suffering when he had first come
to the convent. Earles drew out his cheque book. Gentlemen, I am proud to say that I originated—that I directed those
measures. ‘Grace à dieu, he breathes still. ”
They loitered under trees, they sat on mossy banks they gossiped on friendly
benches, they came back to lunch at the “Star and Garter,” and talked their
afternoon away in the garden that looks out upon the crescent of the river. ”
She shook her head.
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