"He left an envelope with some money in it. Hadn’t the stomach to admit the truth, had he? I’ll lay any money he
labelled you with some foul French name as well. ’
Roding blinked. Then for a time she sat very still. "He does seem a very
extraordinary person. Lucy thought of herself as belonging to Sebastian
whether she liked it or not. ‘You
escape from your own convent, at great personal danger. ’
He sat looking her over in silence for a moment or two, his thoughts revolving
around the name and the way it fitted so exquisitely on quite another set of
features. "
"Come, Sir!" thundered the latter, "no trifling! Perhaps," he added, opening a
warrant, "you'll obey this mandate?"
"A warrant!" ejaculated Kneebone, starting to his feet. He, for his part, was trying to grasp the series of unexpected reactions that had
so wrecked their tete-a-tete.
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