Lucilla shoved Roding out of the way so that she could take hold of Melusine’s hands again. Good night!" She pressed his hand and went out. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. I think I know where I am puzzling you now——” “Then for Heaven’s sake be merciful,” he exclaimed. “But why, Lucy? Who is it 145 that you are trying to hide from? John?” Lucy closed her eyes in earnest. An unexpected vacancy, wasn’t it? Every one comes in on unexpected vacancy. “You need not be alarmed,” he said. Michelle pulled a Kleenex out of a Pocket Pack and blew her nose. Meantime, the lady had overtaken them; but, terrified by the menaces of her vindictive kinsmen, she did not dare to reveal herself to her husband, of whose concealment on the roof of the very house the party were searching she was aware.
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