He drew an
awed breath. Indeed, I've heard him say that, but for
his wife, he would shelter her under his own roof. She turned to Martha as the lad exited by the back door, but her nurse
forestalled anything she might have said. Nothing, in short, portable or valuable was left. ‘How much does he know?’ Without waiting for a reply, she turned narrowed
eyes on Gerald. Her eyes fell, and then sought his again with timid interest. ‘That there governess didn’t like it, of course, me being
the lodgekeeper’s girl, and Martha just a country wench like me. “I have the right of the man who loves you,” he declared. But at the beginning of the affray, when he
thought every one was too much occupied with his own concerns to remark his
absence, he slipped out of the room, not for the purpose of avoiding the
engagement (for cowardice was not one of his failings), but because he had
another object in view. The investigators
should have thought to check inside the garbage can. Her voice
recalled him. “You’re wanted for questioning, miss. He played variations on this theme for the better part of an hour. ’
‘But you managed to escape nevertheless,’ Gerald said calmly, ‘disguising
yourself as a nun.
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