Did the other girls thank you?” “Not really. She stepped into his arms. ‘But that is excessively unkind of you, Melusine. It would surely be only common politeness to drop her a hint—a fellow countrywoman too. ‘Ah, yes? To what do I pretend?’ ‘That,’ Gerald said regretfully, ‘I have not yet been able to fathom. Ennison, if at all,” Anna declared calmly. I didn’t! I didn’t! After all—” For a time her mind ran on daintiness and its defensive restraints as though it was the one desirable thing. He accepted this confession conditionally: that no young man had kissed her. The nun on the threshold was of middle age and heavily built, her back uneven from toil and her hands roughened. ’ ‘But what do you want it for, miss?’ ‘But to protect myself. She saw her mother, her pale face, a woman in a white robe, calling to her from a sun drenched balcony.
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