The wound lay open for five
seconds, and then closed neatly as if it had been stitched
by invisible hands. "
"Humph!" exclaimed Jonathan. He had
saluted her with elaborate civility, his eyes distended with indecipherable
meanings. “Why destroy me, child? There are so many secrets I
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could tell you. The prospect of the
gallows would never deter me from taking to the road, if I were so inclined. ”
“It’s rather jolly of you,” said Ann Veronica. No doubt—
because he did not understand you—he thought you had run away with
someone. To his relief, Mrs Sindlesham stepped into the breach, grasping
her cane and rising painfully from her chair. What has been the matter?”
“Toothache,” he answered laconically. In the meanwhile, as he talked, he scrutinized her face, ran his
eyes over her careless, gracious poise, wondered hard about her. The only difficulties that presented
themselves clearly to her were the difficulties of getting away from Morningside
Park, and not the difficulties at the other end of the journey. Manning,”
she said, “for a time—Will you tell no one? Will you keep this—our secret? I’m
doubtful—Will you please not even tell my aunt?”
“As you will,” he said. ‘Do you think because you’ve managed
to pull a gun on me—not to mention several daggers and a vicious little knife—
that you can get away with it against a man who means business?’
‘Do you think that the trigger I would not have pulled, or stuck the dagger into
you, if you had not been as you are?’ she countered. And now take
away those cards, and never let me see them again. One day she awoke and he was cavorting about
underneath the covers.
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