Miss Stanley, it was manifest, had given him Ann Veronica’s address. Gerald did not know who she was, but he knew who she was not. ”
And thus it was that as Ann Veronica neared the gates of home, she said to
herself: “I’ll have it out with him somehow. She shivered, more due to his presence
than the changing weather. If he adhered to this
policy—to keep away from her inconspicuously—she would forget the name by
night, and to-morrow even the bearer of it would sink below the level of
recollection. That’s my advice to you. ‘I suppose this is the cavalier you had with
you when you—er—attended the ball the other night?’
‘Jacques is very useful to me,’ Melusine confirmed, bestowing that same
radiant smile on the young man, whose features were instantly suffused with
scarlet. But what he could do or might do she could
not imagine. His first reaction had been explosive as the hurts of the past rose up to taunt him. ”
“Heavens!” the lady exclaimed. shouldn’t be
friends. So go up-stairs and get your things together while
I look out for a hansom. “Quite an unimportant one,” he assured her.
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