He then said that if
she would not obey him in this course she should “never darken his doors
again,” and was, indeed, frightfully abusive. 55
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THE MANOR, 1349
They moved to the country manor in the autumn of
1349, when plague was still raging through the city. It’s the poor dears who do, who
know they will, know they can’t keep it up, who need to clutch at way-side
flowers. Upon a
table, where they had been hastily deposited, on the intelligence of Darrell's
accident, lay a pair of pink kid gloves, bordered with lace, and an enormous fan;
the latter, when opened, represented the metamorphosis and death of Actæon. She
knew Martha would not ask anything that she did not wish to know. “She has refused to listen to you?”
“She has behaved in a most extraordinary manner,” he answered. "You've been quizzing my friend
Kent, I perceive, in your Burlington Gate. A shy virgin bride would not press her
thigh sinuously against his, nor consent indeed to this clandestine little comedy
he had been playing. "Here I am, Captain," cried a voice from without. ’
‘Was it?’ Her lips twitched.
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