Aware of the cunning and desperate
characters of the persons with whom she would have to deal,—aware, also, that
she was in a quarter where no laws could be appealed to, nor assistance obtained,
she felt the absolute necessity of caution. As he passed out he saw in the hall a quietly dressed
man with keen grey eyes, talking to one of the footmen. ‘That’s what started the fracas,’ Gerald admitted ruefully, nursing his injured
hand as he recalled it. It was a moment or two before Gerald, opening his eyes on the girl’s
astounded expression, recollected himself sufficiently to pull out of the
extraordinary impact she’d had on him. Yet her embarrassment was only a passing thing. You represented to us the immaculate
Briton, the one Englishman who typified the Saxonism, if I may coin a word, of
our race.
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