A faint
anticipation of triumph showed in his manner and a subdued excitement. The sun shined weakly through brief pinpricks
90
in the thick cloud cover, the weather was brewing a
storm. You did not complain then that I personated you—no, nor when
Sir John came to me in Paris, and for your sake I lied. Saren Chen
was a tall woman, thin and beautiful in a masculine way,
Germanic. What had she so
nearly said? She had almost spoken a name—and quickly withdrawn it. ‘If ever I met such a pair of lunatics!’
‘Give me that, Hilary,’ Gerald said at once, ignoring his remark and reaching
out for the handkerchief. ’
‘She told you!’
‘And,’ pursued Gerald, ignoring his friend’s scornful interjection, ‘that it was
not always convenient to be dressed as a young girl. “They have no plans for us. Besides, this is an affair which no one
but myself can settle. Yet you catch
her eye—you can’t seem to escape from it. ”
She pointed to the envelope still resting upon the mantelpiece. John, I shall eat that whole tin of sardines. Influenced, probably, by what he had heard from
Mr. Kneebone, on his return from Manchester.
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