’
***
It must have been fate, Gerald decided, near an hour later, staring intently at the
closed French windows on the raised alcove that led out to the terrace. To his consternation,
she was holding an unwieldy, ugly-looking pistol, all wood and tarnished steel,
with both hands about the butt. How will I get an Englishman to wed me if they know that I
behave not at all comme il faut?’
‘Perhaps the Englishman in question will not care,’ suggested Prudence, with a
twinkle in her eye for which Melusine was quite unable to account. There was something
holding women down, holding women back, and if it wasn’t exactly man-made
law, man-made law was an aspect of it. What ho! lights! lights!"
And, shouting as he went, he flung himself down stairs. “You are very kind to think of it,” she said, “but—don’t you think perhaps—that
I had better not?”
He smiled indulgently. But I'll
tell e'e what we might do——"
The young man heard no more. She was a much lighter and more frivolous person, very
charming and companionable—but with a difference—a great difference. "Good-bye, Mac. “I am perfectly certain that that
man meant to be rude to me. ‘I did not send you a card because in the normal way of things you rarely
attend such affairs.
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