He drew a little sigh of relief. ’
‘How shocking,’ Gerald returned, grinning. Noiselessly, his booted feet stepping with careful restraint, he started forward,
signalling to Roding to follow. ”
“Your ideas of fairness—” he remarked, and discontinued that sentence. ‘A man
who is false, who steals papers, who has a plot to take another’s name, who lies
to the Mother Abbess and to me, and above all this—’ her voice near to breaking
‘—one who is French. She knew she was pregnant when she missed her period
in the first weeks of August that year. It
generalized everything she put to it. Moving swiftly to the end of the corridor, he pushed
open a door at random and entered a large room, which looked to have been a
saloon, judging from the faded gilt and crimson wall-paper, a mirror above the
fireplace which was surrounded by an ornate gilded frame, now sadly tarnished,
and a worn Chippendale sofa with striped upholstery and tasselled cushions. ”
“The good God!” Anna murmured, herself shaken with fear. Expiation. Chapter XX
ANNA’S SURRENDER
“This is indeed a gala night,” said Ennison, raising his glass, and watching for a
moment the golden bubbles. ’
He moved to his friend and grasped his hand in a gesture as deliberately
dramatic as the storytelling of mademoiselle.
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