“To be frank with you, Lady Lescelles, when your
brother asked me the other day to be his wife I was under a false impression as
regards his relations—with some other person. "You didn't spend it?"
"I never intended to spend it—any more than I really intended to steal it. A black-garbed young lad leapt out and let down the
steps. “You cannot seriously believe,” he said, “that at the present moment I care a
snap of the fingers whether I have any dinner or not. "You have uttered a wilful and deliberate falsehood in
asserting that I have murdered Thames, for whom you well know I would lay
down my life. When first you left your home you had no idea that I
was the hidden impulse. There must be something behind the missioner's
actions, something of which the girl knew nothing nor suspected. “And I have dragged you all over here for nothing,” she murmured. "Even if you
are not a principal, you are an accessory. "
"Your husband?"
"No. I’m in a mess—a
nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess!
“Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess!
“Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things?
“Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!”
She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger
below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. The season was ripe for mating, she thought to herself
bitterly. Toys! Delicate trifles! A sex of invalids. "
"Keep it," said Trenchard, haughtily.
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