Then she sat watching the play,
sometimes offering a helpful suggestion, sometimes letting her attention wander
to the smoothly shining arms she had folded across her knees just below the edge
of the table. While the strife
raged between the principals, the watermen in the larger wherry were occupied
in stemming the force of the torrent, and endeavouring to keep the boats, they
had lashed together, stationary. ‘Because I’m a female,’ declared Lucilla unanswerably. He found the door ajar, and, to his surprise, perceived little
Winifred seated at a table, busily engaged in tracing some design upon a sheet of
paper. If
they hadn't sent for me, you'd have pegged out before morning. Eyebrows knitting, she looked towards the ground a
few feet away from him, guiltily. Down on your
marrow-bones, sirrah! Confess your guilt, and Sir Rowland may yet save you
from the gallows. I kicked the living shit out of him. Then
he released her hand, and sat back a little, appearing to concentrate his thoughts
on her face. Wood obeyed. ”
She breathed an inner sigh of relief. ‘Gérard—’
‘What now?’ he asked, rife with suspicion. ‘And since the entire company and Pottiswick himself were unable to
find hide nor hair of the infernal French female—’
‘English, Hilary,’ Gerald reminded him. You have nothing more to fear from Wild. Brewis had told him the Valade
family had been victim to wholesale murder, and a twinge of compassion had
wrung even his deliberately hardened heart.
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