’
‘You are perfectly correct,’ agreed Gerald at once. As a rule their comings and goings were discussed with perfect
confidence, but on this occasion they both felt that there was intent in her silence
as to her destination. Indeed, I've heard him say that, but for
his wife, he would shelter her under his own roof. She got into rows through meddling with their
shoes and tennis-rackets, and had moments of carefully concealed admiration
when she was privileged to see them just before her bedtime, rather radiantly
dressed in white or pink or amber and prepared to go out with her mother. Far
away there was the one woman for this boy of mine—some human being who
would understand the dear fool better than all the rest of the world. Caution forced her to speak calmly. Things now began to wear so serious a aspect that a messenger was secretly
despatched to the Savoy for troops, and in half an hour a regiment of the guards
arrived, who by dint of great exertion succeeded in partially dispersing the
tumultuous assemblage. Her depression since the
“accident” had possessed her, she no longer cared how
she looked as her beauty helped her not. “It is a very pleasant place,” said Ann Veronica, biting a rhododendron stalk
through, and with that faint shadow of a smile returning to her lips. "
"I care for no risk, provided I can serve you," rejoined Sheppard. “I can’t endure it,” she said. ’
‘What?’ Hilary glanced from Gerald to Melusine, and coloured up. ’
‘What?’ Appalled, Gerald could only gaze at her.
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