’
‘Melusine!’ came sharply from the doorway. ‘Which presupposes that
she needs to hide at all. The house had in fact been converted into a convent,
but the fact could not be advertised, not even in the Catholic enclave that existed
in this part of town. Then she would be dead, and that was no use. ‘Believe it or not, I do it for pleasure. ’
‘How can it be in dispute?’ frowned Mrs Sindlesham. “I cannot reason with you,” he said at last wearily. When
she finally did take her own lover, it was not with a
member of the household staff. It was a moment or two before Gerald realised that he could feel the
fluttering of her pulse beneath the light touch he had on her wrist, and that her
fingers were trembling in his. The tall, blond
boys, right?”
“That’s them. And now take
away those cards, and never let me see them again. So presently they got into a hansom together, and Ann Veronica sat back
feeling very luxurious and pleasant, and looked at the light and stir and misty
glitter of the street traffic from under slightly drooping eyelids, while Ramage
sat closer to her than he need have done, and glanced ever and again at her face,
and made to speak and said nothing.
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