‘Here, miss,’ came faintly from somewhere close at hand. At last he
could bear it no longer. The young lady in the bureau said she would inquire, and Ann Veronica, while
she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau
counter, had a disagreeable sense of being surveyed from behind by a small,
whiskered gentleman in a frock-coat, who came out of the inner office and into
the hall among a number of equally observant green porters to look at her and
her bags. ‘Then I am not mad in the least. Which were perfectly true, as Gerald was aware. “I do not know you,” she said coldly. He was bringing the sing-song girl to the hotel!
The strange cortège presently vanished below the window-sill. It's big, thanks to you. Capes? Well, think what it
must be to live in them—soul and mind and body! It’s fun for a man to jest at
our position. ’
‘I think you—’ He broke off abruptly, astonished at what he had been about to
say. He
must fight the thought continually, day in and day out. ’
Melusine swung away and moved to stare dully out of the window of the little
chapel vestry onto the mews outside. “Which one?”
“The one whose life you have been making a burden, who has been all the time
shielding her sister. Can you kill yourself?”
He asked quietly.
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