But
Gerald took it for the routine interest in an eligible bachelor, although he was
aware many females had an eye for scarlet regimentals. Here would be a
woman perfectly unrecognizable, strong, ruthless but just. Charcoal. He sat down. Her mouth at half-cock, Melusine stood there staring at him. Her aunt was blandly amiable above a certain tremulous
undertow, and talked as if to a caller about the alarming spread of marigolds that
summer at the end of the garden, a sort of Yellow Peril to all the smaller hardy
annuals, while her father brought some papers to table and presented himself as
preoccupied with them. The aunt rushed over to her nephew, knelt and wrapped him in her arms. Wood had been my father, as well as yours. ‘I should have thought it was obvious. So the world is choked with waste and waiting daughters. I have made her an
honourable proposal of marriage, in compliance with the request of her lamented
parent, whose memory—"
"Dare to utter that falsehood in my hearing again, scoundrel," interrupted
Thames fiercely, "and I will put it out of your power to repeat the offence.
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