"Ay. And don’t talk until we’re well out of
earshot. He lifted her from the floor. It's fine with
me if it's fine with Cathy, darlin’. ‘Can’t you trust me a little?’
His touch sent shivers running through her, but Melusine did not withdraw her
hand. ”
The man obeyed his orders noiselessly and then left the room. "Why you
wouldn't stand in the way of his good fortune surely? I'll be a second father to
him, I tell you. For the most part these
were detached people: men practising the plastic arts, young writers, young men
in employment, a very large proportion of girls and women—self-supporting
women or girls of the student class. “You mean to tell me” he said, “that you have a
lover? While I have been keeping you! Yes—keeping you!”
This view of life he hurled at her as if it were an offensive missile. ”
Lady Ferringhall was conscious of some relief. He
fancied that the whole fabric of the bridge was cracking over head,—that the
arch was tumbling upon him,—that the torrent was swelling around him,
whirling him off, and about to bury him in the deafening abyss. She
glanced at the soft-ticking clock with the exposed brass pendulum upon the
white marble mantel, and made a rapid calculation.
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