She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was
alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was
something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at
least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places
of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words
that express it—a very great lark indeed. “A serious question. There were three exit doors. ’
‘That old fool? Why my brother kept him on I shall never know. . She indicated the captain who had
retired behind the sofa. The picture in her mind altered and she saw again the way
Gerald had looked with consternation upon the bruises he had inflicted on her
wrist. The flight. It was the
same smell that she had in his memory, but now it was
definite, palpable, like a perfume. She listened with growing apprehension to the
tale that Gerald told, omitting any mention of pistols and daggers, and at the end
delivered herself of various expletives highly unsuited to a lady of her advanced
years. . All we have to apprehend is a rescue. . 7.
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