‘Who have lately joined us,’ she said, adding sotto voce, ‘A very great tragedy. “What else was I to do?”
For some seconds she stood watching him and both were thinking very
quickly. The Becks were the best foster family that she had ever
had. The girl suppressed a chuckle that would have been inexplicable. Hill was exchanging greetings with his hostess, and salutations around the
table. As
usual, Lucy traced over parts of her experiences in her
confidences with Shari, skipping lightly over her own
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story as a pebble would over a lake. Caution forced her to speak calmly. He had not considered this aspect of the business. He had “put his foot down,” and said she must not go. "
"That child may be the means of saving me," muttered the stranger, as if struck
by a new idea: "I shall gain time by the expedient. “You are very kind,” she said hesitatingly, “but I don’t remember—I don’t think
that I know you, do I?”
“I am afraid that you do not,” he admitted, with a smile which he meant to be
encouraging. "I am innocent.
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