D. So Monday, when I see one of the maids come out
with a basket, for to go fetch summat for that other Frenchie—the female as I
told you about, miss, as is forever coming and going with the nobs. ’
Footsteps sounded just outside, and Captain Roding walked in. Afterward she
wanted to get her letter to her father back in order to read it over again, and, if it
tallied with her general impression of it, re-write it. It had been brighter
than the rest, for dawn light had come in through high unshuttered casements
above the bookshelves. He was always drawing contrasts
between a woman’s lot and a man’s, and treating her as a wonderful new
departure in this comparison. Hadn’t they settled that already?
“I want you as a friend,” he persisted, almost as if he disputed something. He turned his eyes and stared at Miss Garvice like one who wakes from a
reverie, and then got up and strolled down the laboratory toward his refuge, the
preparation-room. You will do as I say, or—’
‘Hoy!’ called Trodger from down the hall. “I
had to. “You know of no one likely to have had a grudge against this man?” he asked. The first of these, whom he addressed as Mr. "
"Do so," replied Kneebone; "but remember the door is locked.
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