***
From the corner of her eye, Melusine saw Gerald move towards her and she
turned to confront him, the confused turmoil in her mind causing her chest to
tighten unbearably. ‘I thought it was his great-nephew, young Brewis
Charvill, who is his heir. And the less “anything” happened the better. Daughters were not like sons. I'll cable to-night, and in a few days we'll have some news. ”
He gave the note to the parlormaid the next morning in an inadvertent, casual
manner just as he was leaving the house to catch his London train. But her request was unheeded. ‘That is, if she’s gone that way. Yet he’s been here for six years, and he’s as much a fixture as that
sham mahogany sideboard. She dressed rapidly and left the theatre without a word to any one. ’
Chapter Ten
‘I am come on a mission of some delicacy, ma’am,’ Gerald said calmly to the old
lady. He was a
thin old man, a wreck in a ruined body, but nothing would induce him to stand in
any other way than as stiffly erect as possible like the soldier he had always
been, even though he was obliged to lean on his silver-handled cane to do so.
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