CHAPTER XXIV. \"Is there something desperately wrong with your house?\" \"There is nothing wrong with our house. She wondered what the problem was, why the buildup? She wanted to go to his apartment that evening but stayed herself. She had a feeling as though something had dropped from her eyes, as though she had just discovered herself for the first time—discovered herself as a sleepwalker might do, abruptly among dangers, hindrances, and perplexities, on the verge of a cardinal crisis. “It’s unforgivable of me to call, Miss Stanley,” he said, shaking hands in a peculiar, high, fashionable manner; “but you know you said we might be friends. But it don't much matter—though he's a devilish shrewd fellow, and might have helped me out of a difficulty, had any occurred. It was fortunate that by this time Winifred had so far recovered, as to be able to afford her father the best and only solace that, under the circumstances, he could have received,—her personal attentions. Anna, do you not see that the Countess is sitting alone?” She rose, and flashed a quick smile upon Ennison behind her husband’s back. She was almost tempted to tell him, if only to see the cracks of surprise and incredulity break the immobility of his yellow countenance. You will be under the eye of the best friend I have; and if you do not treat that child for what she is —an innocent angel—I promise to hunt you across the wide world and kill you with bare hands. I know of scandalous deeds which he has done.
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