Very gently indeed, Alderley grasped the handle of the door and stealthily
turned it. He had reacted by pushing her
away, disgust and frustration on his face. He had attained the residence by his political
ascension to the Duke of Herculis. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. "There,
Sir," she added, unlocking the door, "you can go in. She flew up the covered
stairs and knocked upon his door. Panting with effort, she held her point menacingly at Gosse’s chest. “I think,” he said, “that I would fetch any one whom he has asked to see. ‘You! Have you pen and paper?’
‘Pen and paper now, is it?’ grumbled the old man as he shuffled down the hall. She could still remember
herself at age five, staring knives and daggers at the men
who came into the small yarn shop, under pretense of
business but really just to leer. And behind—
there was Paris, memories of amazing things, memories which made his cheeks
burn and his heart beat quickly as he sat there waiting for her. She observed the tides, amazed
by how high the water could rise, almost touching the
tops of the cliffs. ”
It was nearly half an hour before they dared ask him the question.
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