”
“I came,” Anna answered, looking her sister steadily in the face, “to hear all that
you can tell me about a man named Hill. ”
Her breath left her for a moment. 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. That might happen on
her birthday—in August. ’
She waved towards a handy table to one side which was piled high with so
many volumes, it looked in imminent danger of crashing to the floor. “You are Mademoiselle Pellissier?” he asked, without rising to his feet. On the present occasion, in anticipation of Mr.
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