. One reason,
perhaps, of his success in this case might be, that having arrested his associate in
the dark transaction, Sir Rowland Trenchard, on a charge of high treason, he was
favoured by Walpole, who found his account in retaining such an agent. I
want you to be clear what you’re really and truly up to, anyhow. The servants had left the room. The vestry was perhaps the only room in the place, except her allotted
curtained off portion of the dormitory chamber that served for her cell—and she
could not scandalise the nuns by having a man in there, be he never so much a
servant—where Melusine could be sure of privacy. She longed to enjoy human food as he
did. Will you find your destiny, I wonder, or will you go through
life like so many others—a wanderer, knocking ever at empty doors, homeless to
the last? Oh, if one could but find the way to your heart. ’
‘Then it is good that you do not ask me,’ Melusine snapped, and flouncing
away from him, went to sit in the large chair behind the desk at the far end of the
room. ’
‘Between the devil and the deep blue sea, he were,’ agreed Pottiswick’s
daughter. We mustn’t make it so. What could I do?’
‘Anything but to bring him to me,’ Melusine threw at him. Some
day older people, perhaps, will trouble to understand younger people, and there
won’t be these fierce disruptions; there won’t be barriers one must defy or
perish. "You are giving that
chap the boot rather suddenly?"
"Had to.
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