She wasn’t sure of herself when she said it. The door was opened, and Austin entered the cell, when he absolutely recoiled before the spectacle he beheld, and could scarcely have looked more alarmed if the prison had tumbled about his ears. You break into a gentleman’s residence —’ ‘I did not break in. ‘Now see here, missie. Hopefully. It was long and narrow, with a ceiling supported by huge uncovered rafters, and so low as scarcely to allow a tall man like himself to stand erect beneath it. I told him the truth. ’ ‘Of Leonardo? Yes, I will tell you. “There ought to be some means of getting at him,” he said. Not far from him was a knot of lads drinking, swearing, and playing at dice as eagerly and as skilfully as any of the older hands. Something with iron resolve the father had kept hidden all these years in the lonely citadel of his heart. ’ ‘Ah, but why remain penniless? After all, your grandfather Charvill—’ ‘Again with the grandfather? Mon ami, if you imagine that this grandfather will welcome a daughter of Nicholas Charvill, whom he has never forgiven that he married a Frenchwoman, then you have an imagination entirely wrong. You are a sisterless man; you have never heard the ordinary talk that goes on at a girls’ boarding-school. In those revolutionary times one had to be prepared.
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