At the door through which she had entered the room stood the so-called
Monsieur Valade. “I am very glad that you have come here. “What made you marry him? What made you
leave Paris without a word to any one? What made you and your sister exchange
identities?”
“There is one answer to all those questions, Nigel,” she said, with a nervous little
shudder. He was wearing a new silk hat, with a slightly more generous brim than its
predecessor, and it suited his type of face, robbed his dark eyes a little of their
aggressiveness and gave him a solid and dignified and benevolent air. It is difficult to express these
things. These things are difficult. ‘Was you following, too, miss?’
‘Certainly I was following. Things that you and the nuns would not
think about for—’
She stopped, biting back the words “for a young girl”. A boy no older than she, Gianfrancesco’s cousin,
whispered what he would like to do to her when she stole
into the hallways near the women’s chambers to fix
herself. “I have come from a very unfashionable quarter,” she said, “and I do not think
that I have been inside a milliner’s shop for a year. “I am fairly well known here. So presently they got into a hansom together, and Ann Veronica sat back
feeling very luxurious and pleasant, and looked at the light and stir and misty
glitter of the street traffic from under slightly drooping eyelids, while Ramage
sat closer to her than he need have done, and glanced ever and again at her face,
and made to speak and said nothing. Without a word, the general reached out and took them, but his glance
searched the girl’s face. But
never mind that. Enter the house with your men.
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