"
"I see through your design, Jack," returned the carpenter, gravely; "but I don't
like under-hand work. Kneebone's
door, you begged me to await your return here, assuring me you would not
detain me five minutes. The letter began:
“MY DEAREST GIRL,—I cannot let you do this foolish thing—”
She crumpled notes and letter together in her hand, and then with a passionate
gesture flung them into the fire. For a long time he remained standing before
the fire, staring at the situation. ‘How could you possibly know it?’
‘I know it,’ Lucilla told him frostily, ‘because Dorothée told me that Madame
Valade went off with Gerald positively purring in her ear—which is a thing he
never does—and came back with him looking like the cat after cream. Every one took him for the millionaire, and he had lost his head about
me. “Unless you have an appointment, which you haven’t,” he said, “you’ll only
waste your time here. ’
‘Distract me? She nigh on gave me an apoplexy. On the stranger's appearance, she was seated
near the window busily occupied with her needle. ”
Anna shook her head. ’
She bit her lip, frowning. ”
Anna was not late, but her heart sank within her when she entered the drawingroom.
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