Her aunt returned before the packing was done, and Ann Veronica lunched with an uneasy sense of bag and hold-all packed up-stairs and inadequately hidden from chance intruders by the valance of the bed. Jackson, I could almost fancy we had met before. ‘Ah, no,’ Gerald uttered at once, lowering his voice and infusing it with all the promise he could command. I said, ‘It is no use your telling me about this walk and pretend I’ve been told about the ball, because you haven’t. “Of course,” she said diffidently, “this is a boarding-house, although we never take in promiscuous travellers. I am betrothed to Captain Roding, which is why you can’t have him, you see. ’ ‘You mean monsieur le baron, the General Charvill, my grandfather?’ Melusine laid aside on the table the letter she had been studying and turned so that the frame of her nun’s wimple no longer obscured her view. In this state it would have been all over with him, as, being stunned by the fall, it was some moments before he could recover himself, if another party had not unexpectedly come to his rescue. It was an awful moment—so awful, that every other feeling except deep interest in the scene seemed suspended.
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