She was
marvellously pretty, but he was not quite sure—yet—that it was advisable for
him to sit with her in so public a place. ‘But for how long?’ Lady Bicknacre asked apprehensively. "I cannot sign it," returned Trenchard. “The man
alone could supply any, and if he recovers sufficiently to say anything, what he
would say would exonerate you. ” He seemed to be elaborating ideas as he talked. But she veiled her feelings. “One day,” he resumed, “we will start off early and come down into
Kandersteg and up these zigzags and here and here, and so past this Daubensee
to a tiny inn—it won’t be busy yet, though; we may get it all to ourselves—on
the brim of the steepest zigzag you can imagine, thousands of feet of zigzag; and
you will sit and eat lunch with me and look out across the Rhone Valley and over
blue distances beyond blue distances to the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa and a
long regiment of sunny, snowy mountains. “Come with me. “You had only to
ask——”
“Do you think,” Anna interrupted, with a note of passion trembling also in her
tone, “that I would have taken alms from Sir John, the man to whom I had lied
for your sake. “Indeed!” Anna answered indifferently. ” She tried to sound
convincing as she looked away hotly. ’
Joan sniffed.
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