’
‘But I can’t leave you, miss. ”
“I have a clue, at any rate,” he remarked, smiling. "
"A key!" exclaimed Wood eagerly. And
now, a fair exchange, Sir. She told the porter to
take it to the booking-office, and it was only after a disconcerting moment or so
that she found she ought to have directed him to go to the cloak-room. Ann Veronica, with a sigh at the cost of
hospitality, made a hasty negotiation for an extra tea and for a fire in the groundfloor apartment, and preened herself carefully for the interview. Do not mistake me. Papillon would have broken him down; anything tender
would have sapped his will; and like as not he would have left the stool and
rushed into the night. ”
“Well?”
“Sir John came to me—that you know—and you can guess what I told him. Earles was absolutely indifferent. “Are you a special sort of clergyman,” she said, after a pause, and
looking down her nose at him, “or do you go to the Universities?”
“Oh!” he said, profoundly. The chief influence was
her awakening sense of the need of money. He seemed to do ten things before she could think to do one, to leap upon her
and take possession. But it was only
when that damned scoundrel nearly spitted you in the chapel—’ He broke off
and, to her intense satisfaction she saw he was not as much in command of
himself as he would have her believe.
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