A conviction that her sister’s words were true had from the
first possessed her. ’
Shock threw Melusine’s heart out of kilter and she looked instinctively
towards the major. ‘Wait! No time for that. He was always doing his best to call her attention to the fact
that he was a man of spirit and quality and experience, and she a young and
beautiful woman, and that all sorts of constructions upon their relationship were
possible, trusting her to go on from that to the idea that all sorts of relationships
were possible. You have not forgotten——”
“I have forgotten nothing?” he answered, enigmatically. "
"I don't know. ”
He paced the room for a minute or two restlessly. Quilt's manner, indeed, was that of a man endeavouring to muster up sufficient
resolution for the commission of some desperate crime. But then—Oh! Madam, there are moments—moments of darkness, which
overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the poor houseless wretches who
traverse the streets, when reason is well-nigh benighted; when the horrible
promptings of despair can, alone, be listened to; and when vice itself assumes
the aspect of virtue. But some people have no
consideration. I will marry you when Sir John gets his divorce, and I will do
all I can to keep you out of harm. It would be easy enough for me to write an eloquent letter about something
else. Katy had sneered at her for a moment, their eyes
locking.
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