”
They were in the elder Widgett girl’s bedroom; Hetty was laid up, she said,
with a sprained ankle, and a miscellaneous party was gossiping away her tedium. “Of course,” she said diffidently, “this is a boarding-house, although we never
take in promiscuous travellers. To find the incentive! But how? Thither and yon the idea
roved, seeking the way. “And then?” said Ann Veronica. “Michelle, I think
that you are the victim of an extremely overactive
imagination. "You've given him a broken head, I
perceive. ’
‘Militia, miss,’ Kimble corrected her. Think of those
days in Paris. "
"All right, then. You're the first widow I ever heard of who could
withstand that lure. ‘Your wife?’
‘My wife,’ he repeated, rising also, his smile mocking her. He nodded. One point was that she was to wear fancy dress in the likeness of a
Corsair’s bride, and the other was that she was to spend whatever vestiges of the
night remained after the dance was over in London with the Widgett girls and a
select party in “quite a decent little hotel” near Fitzroy Square. Ever since the young police
officer had arrived on her doorstep the clock had started
ticking faster.
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