CHAPTER XXII. "
"Leave us together, my good woman," said Jack, putting a guinea into her hand. ” Michelle said, tossing her
glossy ponytail defiantly. On returning to the audience-chamber, Jonathan found the inanimate body of
Thames Darrell lying where he had left it; but, on examining it, he remarked that
the pockets were turned inside out, and had evidently been rifled. “All’s well that ends well,”
he said; “and the less one says about things the better. This at once
thrilled her and worried her. Her first intimations of marriage as a fact of extreme significance in a
woman’s life had come with the marriage of Alice and the elopement of her
second sister, Gwen. “Quite particularly nice,” said her aunt. Don’t you think that the shade of my hair is lovely?”
“There is nothing particular the matter with the shade,” Anna answered, “but it is
not nearly so becoming as before you touched it. Her moods were many and always striking. He's
a model of conjugal attachment and fidelity, a pattern to his family, and an
example to his neighbours. It was Jack, wasn’t it?’
‘Aye, s-sir. ‘She won’t confide in you? Now, why?’
‘Because that scoundrel Leonardo drummed it into her head that no man was
to be trusted,’ Gerald announced viciously. She had never seen her sitting on tables nor
heard her discussing theology, and had failed to observe that the graceful figure
was a natural one and not due to ably chosen stays. But seriously,
things are not so bad as you think.
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