‘French? But what else?’
‘I do not like Frenchmen,’ Melusine snapped. Was not Gerald altogether on her side? He
was, even though he played games like an imbecile, a person tout à fait
sympathique as she had discovered at the outset. ‘What we have to find out is
whether or not the wretched female is in fact Lord Charvill’s granddaughter. But always this new phase in life which civilization
called convention threw up barrier after barrier. But on Sunday he had been obliged to attend to certain matters for the nuns. Fortescue tried to act embarrassment in order to conceal its reality, and
Ann Veronica went on to ask a string of questions about acting, and whether her
sister would act, and was she beautiful enough for it, and who would make her
dresses, and so on. As she drew off her skirt she felt something in the pocket, and
remembered the letter which the commissionaire at the Carlton had given her. He’d borne mention of the woman’s name. "An audience might have frightened the
birds. '—'No fear o' that,' thought I. "Do you want it back under the pillow?"
"Hang it over a chair. There was something very
wrong. . ’
Melusine’s eyes flashed. Almost
simultaneously they burst out laughing.
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