She was enchanted by the
beauty of the other girls, who were magically transformed
into fairies and elves by makeup into seemingly unfamiliar
yet glamorous new people. I
will be very well without him. I suppose I ought to
have been a man. It
was a refusal of expediency, he said, and not an absolute refusal. “I had a dream in the night,”
she said. Both girls looked pale and listless. At any
rate, it would be good to hear him saying the sort of things he did—perhaps now
she would grasp them better—with this world-shaking secret brandishing itself
about inside her head within a yard of him. He'll be able to help us a little now. I'm a slave to my word. After
all, it was what she had been praying for—and Annabel could not have known
her address. A few words passed between him and the thief-taker as the latter came
up; after which, all the party—with the exception of Quilt, who was left on shore
—embarked within the wherry, which was pushed from the strand and rowed
swiftly along the stream—for the tide was in its favour—by a couple of
watermen. Was she
so fearful still?
Roding shrugged and grimaced. ’
‘Sir!’ called Trodger, as the captain began to lead the young lady off. Until this
instant, he discovered, he had thought of Melusine’s plan only in a nebulous
fashion, a naïve girl’s dream.
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