CHAPTER XVII. ”
“That brings us back,” said Ann Veronica, “to the mystery. “To the best of my belief,” she said, with quiet dignity, “I have never seen either
of you before in my life. Also he
had said—laughing in that way with his eyes which made a flutter in her chest—
that Prudence will find an Englishman to marry her. He was a man tout à fait capable, this Gerald. How did you meet him?’
‘He was wounded and came to the convent for sanctuary,’ Melusine told him,
stung by his criticism into revealing more than she had intended. Fortescue, with a bow. "Take him to the bilbowes. You must be lonely here with only a
few men friends. ‘Bête!’
Gerald caught her hand as she pulled it back to deliver another blow. And now I find, when it is too late,
that I might have deserved you—that I am as well born as Thames Darrell. Earles was absolutely indifferent. I
want you to be clear what you’re really and truly up to, anyhow. Everything is being done that can be. Then the bridge had arched gateways,
bristling with spikes, and garnished (as all ancient gateways ought to be) with
the heads of traitors.
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