They had asked her to come to the first of the two great
annual Fadden Dances, the October one, and Ann Veronica had accepted with
enthusiasm. The house was eerily silent, which alerted her to the
idea that someone might be listening. ‘Ah, yes,’ Gerald said, jumping down from the coach and waiting for the
fellow to let down the steps for Melusine, ‘I had forgotten about you. I will go
with you. One doesn’t realize that even the sort of
civilization one has at Morningside Park is held together with difficulty. She
descended the stairs, and found herself at last in the street—alone. So, by way of gaining time, he resolved to
question him further. ‘And how do you propose to get in?’
‘Scullery window. ’
‘You mean monsieur le baron, the General Charvill, my grandfather?’
Melusine laid aside on the table the letter she had been studying and turned so
that the frame of her nun’s wimple no longer obscured her view.
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