‘Yes, for there were too many females for the vicomte to make me a dowry. But her words were
not addressed to Melusine. My mind is full of ideas and images that I have been cherishing
and accumulating—dreams of travelling side by side, of lunching quietly
together in some jolly restaurant, of moonlight and music and all that side of life,
of seeing you dressed like a queen and shining in some brilliant throng—mine;
of your looking at flowers in some old-world garden, our garden—there are
splendid places to be got down in Surrey, and a little runabout motor is quite
within my means. It would have
saved me much circumlocution, and you some suspense. It was just such a bedroom as she would have
chosen for herself. Some of the lunatics were rattling their chains; some
shrieking; some singing; some beating with frantic violence against the doors. There were cakes and sandwiches—for Ennison a sort of Elysian feast, long
to be remembered. “The ones Cariolus did for me. She found herself
anxious to read more of him, and the next Wednesday she went to the British
Museum and hunted first among the half-crown magazines for his essays and
then through various scientific quarterlies for his research papers.
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