‘You
ought to be glad someone cares enough about your wretched little neck to try
and save it. It comes to this—am I to be trusted to take care of myself, or am I not?”
“To judge from this proposal of yours, I should say not. Her whole face stiffened with suppressed anger. "
"There's some one in the garden at this moment," cried Jack; "I saw a face at the
window. She formed a wild resolution, and, lest she
should waver from it, she set about at once to realize it. But she
wished she could put the thing she had done in some way to them so that it
would not hurt them so much as the truth would certainly do. “It does not appear to me,” he said, stiffly, “to be an affair for jests. One trouble, however, shot its slanting bolts athwart the shining warmth of
that opening day and marred its perfection, and that was the thought of her
father. ”
“You will have no objection to his remaining here?” he asked. “Like a stab. To the Seven Cities of Refuge Jack proceeded. ’
The full story—or as much as Gerald knew—of Valade’s machinations
shocked the old lady so much that she was obliged to recruit her strength with a
refill from the Madeira decanter.
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