“Only—I have come face to face—with something terrible, and wholly
unexpected trouble. Manning,”
she said, “for a time—Will you tell no one? Will you keep this—our secret? I’m
doubtful—Will you please not even tell my aunt?”
“As you will,” he said. The Ferringhalls are of course without any pretence at family,
but Sir John is a very rich man, and will be able to give Annabel a very enviable
position in the world. It would be very good to be Capes’ friend. . . It might as well be Melusine
herself. I just wanted a breath
of air. I speak frankly, because you also know that no possible
extremity would induce me to accept help from any living person. I am a physician first, which
gives the man in me a secondary part. . That ring manifestly occupied her thoughts a great deal. He dined, and then pleaded a political engagement. ‘Have I not said so?’
‘No, as it happens.
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