’ A reluctant laugh escaped him. ’
‘You see? Not to be trusted,’ Hilary uttered disgustedly. ‘Would you have me face my
maker with that on my conscience? If I’d died, there’d have been no one to tell
you, for your father would not have done. Melusine’s eyes blazed into his. She realized more and more the
quality of the brink upon which she stood—the dreadful readiness with which in
certain moods she might plunge, the unmitigated wrongness and recklessness of
such a self-abandonment. “I really owe him something of an
apology. ”
“I have been more fortunate than I deserved,” Anna answered, “but I only meant
to stay upon the music hall stage until I could get something better. There’s something—
something ADULT about you. Had he been trying to stop the grim descent,
and had he dimly perceived that perhaps a fine deed would serve as the initial
barrier? A drunken idea—a pearl in the midst of a rubbish heap. The foremost, tall, clean-shaven, perfectly groomed, half extended
his hand with a smile of recognition. “Just at present my mind simply won’t take hold of this at all. She turned her head to each side. He was inclined to be a good-natured person, and he
had no nervous fears of receiving a snub.
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