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“What else can happen?” asked Miss Miniver, with a little weak gesture at the
glow. “No, the only person I told before tonight was my
mother and father. Thus, more and more Ruth turned to the mongrel dog who bore the name of
Rollo unflinchingly—the dog that adored her openly, shamelessly, who now
without a whimper took his diurnal tubbing. But after Singapore she
found herself enduing them with the characteristics of the heroes in the novels
she had just read for the first time. “And what was that dreadful confession you had to make?” he was saying. Tell Lucy about the time you were nine years old and
blew up the house, John. ’
She allowed herself to be pulled to the centre of the room, but uttered in a low
tone, full of suppressed anxiety, ‘How can he know? How can he know?’
‘You mean how can he know that this is your house?’
Melusine looked up at him, distress in her eyes. For a time she looked at no more apartments, and walked through gaunt and
ill-cleaned streets, through the sordid under side of life, perplexed and troubled,
ashamed of her previous obtuseness. 238
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IN BED
John drove her home after school nearly every day. Lucy tried not to make her cringe
noticeable. ’
Shock threw Melusine’s heart out of kilter and she looked instinctively
towards the major. “Dare!” she
said. "No such thing," rejoined Thames.
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