For this he was prepared;
but he was not prepared for the almost insurmountable obstacles which it
presented. ‘And your schooling?’ he pursued. 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. Sheila wouldn’t allow me to date a
boy even if he was only fifteen—I mean sixteen, like I
am, you see. ‘You seem to understand the gentry very well. Spurling
attended him as his nurse, and, under her care, he speedily revived.
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