If he had got off, they might have hanged me, and welcome. ‘Very well, mademoiselle, so be it,’ he snapped. “What were you trying to do?” Lucy asked. ‘Well, what was I to think, miss? Martha never wrote nothing about you, and I
did ask. ’
‘Yes, that is what he said,’ agreed Melusine, pleased to find him of so ready an
understanding. How little he
knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that
her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on
this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an
aunt in the States. “Then we must try and make London endurable for you,” he remarked
cheerfully. But what he could do or might do she could
not imagine.
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