To receive
him here afterwards would be most repugnant to me. She looked at it with a little shudder,
but she made no motion to take it. And if the woman is not
a rival, she must be—yes, that must be it. Her heels made contact with Rhea’s knees and hobbled
her with a crack. They all left the room. Only a book detective could dope this out. “Idiot!” She raged inwardly while she
walked along with that air of self-contained serenity that is proper to a young
lady of nearly two-and-twenty under the eye of the world. Of course, there'll be a few kinks to straighten out. Through one doorway she saw a grave Chinaman standing on a stage-like
platform. She was a very elegant young woman,
slightly taller perhaps than her sister, and with an air of reserved strength
underneath her quiet face and manner which Annabel may have lacked. While Thames modestly expressed a hope that he might not belie the carpenter's
favourable prediction, Jack Sheppard thought fit to mount a small ladder placed
against the wall, and, springing with the agility of an ape upon a sort of frame,
contrived to sustain short spars and blocks of timber, began to search about for a
piece of wood required in the work on which he was engaged.
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