Wood had been my father, as well as yours. . ’
‘I think you—’ He broke off abruptly, astonished at what he had been about to
say. He was unusually absurd and ready, and all the time it seemed to Ann
Veronica as a delightful possibility, as a thing not indeed to be entertained
seriously, but to be half furtively felt, that he was being so agreeable because she
had come back again. She reached for the door handle. "
Abraham grinned, and silently followed his master, who, as soon as they reached
the audience-chamber, poured out a bumper of spirits, and presented it to him. Of the vast mass of these impressions Ann Veronica could make nothing at the
time; there they were—Fact! She stored them away in a mind naturally retentive,
as a squirrel stores away nuts, for further digestion. "Oh! nothin' partickler—mere curossity," replied Terence. Moving swiftly to the end of the corridor, he pushed
open a door at random and entered a large room, which looked to have been a
saloon, judging from the faded gilt and crimson wall-paper, a mirror above the
fireplace which was surrounded by an ornate gilded frame, now sadly tarnished,
and a worn Chippendale sofa with striped upholstery and tasselled cushions. ’
She allowed herself to be pulled to the centre of the room, but uttered in a low
tone, full of suppressed anxiety, ‘How can he know? How can he know?’
‘You mean how can he know that this is your house?’
Melusine looked up at him, distress in her eyes.
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