It was not without considerable demur and delay on the part of Sharples that the
carpenter and his companion could gain admittance to the round-house. ’
‘Merci,’ she sighed and, surrendering at last to his oft-proffered aid, allowed
her head to droop onto his chest. ‘Well,’ began Captain Roding, looking at Melusine, ‘you know those nuns of
yours took up Valade—I mean, Gosse—and put him to bed to mend his wound,
and I posted a guard outside his room so he couldn’t escape, for Gerald told you
all that. Annabel turned on the electric light and made her
way into the sitting-room. The man himself
was not a pleasant object. “I had a faint idea once that things were as you say they are, but the affair of
the ring—of the unexpected ring—puzzled me. He had adroitly captured her and led her away from her other
guests on the pretext of feigning an interest in her charitable attitude to the newly
arrived French. Sir Rowland witnessed these proceedings like one stupified. She thought of the marvellous beauty of skin, and all the delightfulness of
living texture.
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