If only she had thought to plunge the scissors into her own heart! Hoddy … to return and find her either gone or dead! But even as the Wastrel's arms gathered her, there came the sound of hurrying steps on the veranda. Should be home soon. She’s naïve, and yet uncannily shrewd at times, and you daren’t rely on anything she says. It was still possible the child might be in safety. He grunted a little with effort, and she realised the gilt frame must be heavy. So, very carefully, he raised her in his arms and carried her to her bed. You shall have your reward. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words that express it—a very great lark indeed. I should like Mr. A momentary petrifaction, and terror had lent wings to her feet. In the mornings I find labour easy because I am going to see you. She paused. “There’s no delusions, so far as I know,” said Ann Veronica. ’ But the nun’s eyes had caught Gerald behind and she took instant umbrage. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous.
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