’ For a moment Melusine stared at him as she took in the full horror of his scheme. ’ ‘Do you care to test that theory?’ Gerald suggested easily. Her fingers opened and the weapon fell from her nerveless grasp. “More than that, he arrived to-day at the boarding-house where I am staying, greeted me with a theatrical start, and claimed me—as his wife. “Damned Rascal!” he said. "I have dreamed that I shall see him before I die," she rejoined. That world of fine printed cambrics and escorted maidens, of delicate secondary meanings and refined allusiveness, presented itself to her imagination with the brightness of a lost paradise, as indeed for many women it is a lost paradise. There was a lapse of time, an interval of blackness; then he found his hand in hers and she was leading him at a run up the side of the mountain. “If one was free,” she said, “one could go to him. Of what was she thinking? She must rescue herself. ” “Try what?” She asked, coolly assessing his lithe hips. ” “Yes, but men;” said Ann Veronica, plunging; “don’t you want the love of men?” For some seconds they remained silent, both shocked by this question. I must leave England to-night. He flung aside all his talk of help and disinterested friendship as though it had never been even a disguise between them, as though from the first it was no more than a fancy dress they had put quite understandingly upon their relationship. ” “What do you mean—by too late?” he demanded.
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