“It’s too bad. ’ His finger came out and Melusine felt it stroke her cheek. Miss Klegg and the youngest girl made a
vigorous attack on Miss Garvice, who had said she thought women lost
something infinitely precious by mingling in the conflicts of life. But
the cases were not identical. Melusine saw fire in his eyes and a streak of heat rushed through her to match it. She had not anticipated such a
response from her classmates, but knew to be drawing
them with her self-consciousness as if they were bees to
pollen. According to Lucilla, this comtesse had constituted herself something of a
social leader in the rapidly growing assemblage of refugees, and would
undoubtedly be ready to introduce an eligible bachelor appropriately. She told
him the story of her parents, her marriage to Iovelli, the
loss of her baby, the kidnapping after the miscarriage. Aware of the footman hovering, and the hackney coachman’s curious eyes
looking down from his box, Gerald leaned a little towards her and spoke in a
lowered tone. But the
lady was not so easily won; and though she did not absolutely reject him, gave
him very slight hopes. Hastening to the spot where he had tied
his horse to a tree, he vaulted into the saddle, and rode off across the fields,—for
he was fearful of encountering the hostile party,—till he reached the Edgeware
Road. Give me the keys and the light.
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