But Jack was too well versed in the geography of the place to attempt either
of them. He has got five minutes' start of you. "
"It may be; but if it shortens the distance and lightens the journey, I care not,"
retorted the widow, who seemed by this reproach to be roused into sudden
eloquence. “I throw it out in
passing,” he said. Won’t you come and have some tea with me? There is a new
place in Bond Street,” he hastened to say, “where everything is very well done,
and they give us music, if that is any attraction to you. ’
Chapter Nine
As she devoured the simple meal of bread and cheese, and several slices of cold
roast beef, the whole washed down with a poor sort of coffee, Melusine listened
with avid interest to the details of her mother’s life as revealed by the
exclamatory conversation of Joan Ibstock. ”
Her mind drifted into a speculation about her sister. He stood on the top step for a moment, lost in
deep thought. She
had thought—What had she thought? That this dependence of women was but an
illusion which needed only to be denied to vanish. ”
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Clotilde was no fool.
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