”
She was able to go straight to her room without delay, and she at once locked the
door with a little sigh of relief. ‘Jacques!’
He stopped, but he did not turn. Sheppard; and, as soon as he could command his
feelings, which were considerably excited by the mention of her distresses, he
squeezed her hand warmly, bestowed a hearty execration upon his own
inhumanity, and swore he would neither separate her from her child, nor suffer
any one else to separate them. They talked across their meal in an easy and friendly manner about Ann
Veronica’s affairs. ‘I don’t propose doing anything with you. The clerk at the Raffles Hotel had accorded her but scant interest. Over an old crazy bedstead was thrown a squalid,
patchwork counterpane; and upon the counterpane lay a black hood and scarf, a
pair of bodice of the cumbrous form in vogue at the beginning of the last
century, and some other articles of female attire. Loving was self-forgetfulness, pure delighting in another human being. "They shall not harm you, my love!" she exclaimed. To her horror she
realized that she had nearly forgotten how to kiss after a
years-long dry spell, and she could detect drool on her
own chin and John’s cheek. ‘Why?’
‘Why take me to France? Why trouble himself with me, when so easily he
could leave me to this Monsieur Remenham to keep?’
To Melusine’s instant suspicion, Martha bit her lip, drew a breath, and avoided
her charge’s gaze.
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