Two or three podgy-looking old men
with wives to match, half-a-dozen overdressed girls, and a couple of
underdressed American ones, who still wore the clothes in which they had been
tramping half over London since breakfast time. Fellows are drawing up the necessary papers, but gave Gerald a letter of
authorisation for you, mademoiselle, to use in the interim. “Can you spare me forty pounds?” she said. Bravo!—the
best cly-faker of 'em all couldn't have done it better. She wondered wildly why she had stood up. “Odd thing,” Meddoes remarked, “we were just talking about the Pellissier girl. The young male, as she had actually
seen him, had been of the sailor type, hard-bitten, primordial, ruthless. Remember
——”
Annabel clutched her sister’s arm. And at the sight something leaped within her. A quick flush stained her
cheeks. ‘Eh bien, I will tell you. What sort of a standard of life
yours may be I do not know, yet in your heart you know very well that every
word you have spoken to me has been a veiled insult, every time you have come
into my presence has been an outrage. She indicated the captain who had
retired behind the sofa. ’
The footman did not object, but it was plain he felt he was neglecting his duty,
for he emitted an admonitory cough, causing the captain to pause in his way to
the library across the hall. ‘Do not speak any more for you give yourself pain,’ said Melusine fearfully.
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