Impassive by nature and training, he was conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by a dull background of disappointment. She knew, or guessed his mission too, for more than once their eyes met, and she laughed mockingly at him. There was no one to be seen in the great hall. ’ ‘Ah, but why remain penniless? After all, your grandfather Charvill—’ ‘Again with the grandfather? Mon ami, if you imagine that this grandfather will welcome a daughter of Nicholas Charvill, whom he has never forgiven that he married a Frenchwoman, then you have an imagination entirely wrong. ‘He don’t mean you no harm. The man himself was not a pleasant object. “Oh, theories! Being in love is a fact. ” She spoke like a mistress addressing school-children. ’ She tried to shake his hands off her wrists, but Gerald held them fast and tutted at her. ‘Tell me about the convent? Were you happy there? They were kind to you, the nuns?’ ‘Oh, but yes. Tell Bess to slip out, and I'll put on her cloak and hood.
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