1. "Like a hero," answered Austin. ”
“Will you tell me,” Sir John said ponderously, “by what right you call that young
lady—la petite Pellissier? I should be glad to know how you dare to allude to her
in a public place in such a disrespectful manner!”
Drummond looked at him and smiled. “You will pardon me, sir,” he said in a subdued tone, “but I think that you have
forgotten to look at your engagement book. Most of the tables were for those who smoked only and
drank wine, but there were a few spread with tablecloths and laid for dinner. You
simply can’t. But in its stead—toward
morning—there appeared another idea which appealed to him as sublime,
appealed to the primitive conscience, to his artistic sense of the drama, to the
poet and the novelist in him. She stood looking
down upon him with dilated eyes. Ramage did not know. ’
***
It must have been fate, Gerald decided, near an hour later, staring intently at the
closed French windows on the raised alcove that led out to the terrace. “Is your husband here to-night?” he asked. Unbelievable the pranks that she
pulled—-you should have told me! I told her to leave you
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the hell alone or she would be dealing with me next, I
dropped a hint about telling her parents about her in
detail. ”
“Annabel’s real reason for wishing to leave Paris, the real reason she married Sir
John Ferringhall, was because of a very foolish thing which she did. “The very question, my dear sister,” she said, “tells me that I have succeeded. I
gather you wish to go up in some fantastic get-up, wrapped about in your opera
cloak, and that after the festivities you propose to stay with these friends of
yours, and without any older people in your party, at an hotel.
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