“Are you a special sort of clergyman,” she said, after a pause, and
looking down her nose at him, “or do you go to the Universities?”
“Oh!” he said, profoundly. "
"'Zounds! Captain, I shall get my death of cold. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think
the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The
abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white
sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you
really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets
without giving any return?”
“I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. You will find proofs of the bloody deed in his
room. I am a single man,
and——”
“Thank you,” she interrupted. She
knew that the next time he caught her she would not be able to free herself. ”
“No! I’ll explain lower. Feel for the lock, and prize it
open,—you don't need to be told how. ‘You’re speaking the truth. There's another lad at the gate waiting for him—the same who
was here just now, that Sir Rowland was speaking of, who fastened up the jewelcase for her ladyship. Here it is.
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