Just as he reached them, the Comte de St Erme drew Valade a
little apart and began to converse with him in rapid French. It fell with a clatter to the floor. The stipendiary would
have done it all very differently. We have to hang about in the
interval. Gerald glanced at Hilary and saw the stunned look on his face. She also
knew that he was the type who would not make a single
physical overture until she pushed the correct buttons. It isn’t as though I
haven’t done well. The prospect of the
gallows would never deter me from taking to the road, if I were so inclined. Her little bedsitting-room was like a lair, and she went out from it into this vast, dun world,
with its smoke-gray houses, its glaring streets of shops, its dark streets of homes,
its orange-lit windows, under skies of dull copper or muddy gray or black, much
as an animal goes out to seek food. ’
A faint smile crossed Gerald’s lips. She tried surreptitiously to
reach her own dagger, in its cunning hiding place in her petticoat.
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