“Really, Sir John,” she said, “I don’t know how to thank you. "
"Rot! Mac, what do you suppose the natives used to call her? The
Dawn Pearl!"
McClintock wagged his Scotch head negatively. To his intense satisfaction, Melusine bit her lip on a tremor. A
pity, en effet, that she dare not truly desire him to rescue her. “Why are you so distant? Why all the mystery? What
are you, a narc? Double-oh-seven or something?”
She steeled herself, refusing to react. She felt as
if she had struck them unawares. ’ Gerald sighed. ‘Do you at least know how he came to be in a position to cheat Miss Charvill,
and to pass off his wife in her place?’
‘In her place?’ There was no mistaking the boy’s ignorance of this part of the
tale. She responded with an unfaltering appearance of insensibility,
and never as a young and beautiful woman conscious of sex; always in the
character of an intelligent girl student.
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