No matter. Lucy collapsed to the floor in a sob. “Does he live here?” he asked her presently. ’ Noting the twinkle in her great-aunt’s eye, Melusine forebore to comment, grateful to Lucilla for adjuring Captain Roding to give an account of himself. ” He was bereft of words for a moment, and in that moment she escaped, having passed him on deftly to one of the later arrivals. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. The chair is in the veranda. ’ To Gerald’s relief, the entrance of the butler interrupted them, relieving him of the necessity to explain himself. It was, Ann Veronica felt, as a sip or so of that remarkable blend warmed her blood, just the sort of thing that her aunt would not approve, to be lunching thus, tete-a-tete with a man; and yet at the same time it was a perfectly innocent as well as agreeable proceeding. This young man did not drink because he sought the false happiness that lured men to the bottle. 1. “Well, if I find your conversation interesting I shall listen. With people of that sort all sorts of things may happen.
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