’ Much to Melusine’s chagrin, Gerald folded his arms and leaned back, as
if wholly at his ease. What you would look upon as immorality
is here merely an established custom, three thousand years older than
Christianity, accepted with no more ado than that which would accompany you
should you become a clerk in a shop. All of us were fussy, colicky babies from what she tells
me. Gerald looked at it, then at her face. “Oh, but life is difficult!” she
groaned. “I must explain to her. It will be a little lonely sometimes,” she said,
looking around at them, “and I shall miss you all, but it is the fairest for myself
—and I think for you. ’
So saying, he pulled her forward, slipping her arms about his back. Gerald shook his head. ”
She slipped on her cloak and stepped into the hansom with him. He had been gone entirely one day, for yesterday afternoon he had
departed from Remenham House, and she had waited with patience like a saint,
and now it was again the afternoon. ”
“I should have his head on a platter!” Sebastian
exclaimed dramatically. ’
‘I suppose you want to take her along as well as that infernal stolen horse?’
said Hilary sarcastically. To escape one phase of loneliness she had plunged into another, so vast that
her courage sometimes faltered.
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