They went to the Zoological
Gardens together one Saturday to see for themselves a point of morphological
interest about the toucan’s bill—that friendly and entertaining bird—and they
spent the rest of the afternoon walking about and elaborating in general terms
this theme and the superiority of intellectual fellowship to all merely passionate
relationships. Aware of the footman hovering, and the hackney coachman’s curious eyes
looking down from his box, Gerald leaned a little towards her and spoke in a
lowered tone. "
"Loves!" echoed Winifred, slightly colouring. ”
She had a moment of sheer panic at the thing she had done. But her mind was ruffled, and its mirror-like surface of
satisfaction was not easily restored. ‘No,
no, Jacques, you have done very right. Some years ago, in 1715, just
before the Rebellion, I was rash enough to league myself with the Jacobite party,
and by Wild's machinations got clapped into Newgate, whence I was glad to
escape with my head upon my shoulders. “But a boy—a boy goes out into the world and presently stands on his own
feet. ’
Melusine shrugged.
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