He said the
place had gone to wrack. “Perhaps by this time you will have heard of the step I have taken in leaving
my home. All
the world about her seemed to be—how can one put it?—in wrappers, like a
house when people leave it in the summer. Then suddenly, in front
of all those windows, he folded her in his arms and pressed her to him, and
kissed her unresisting face. “I believe it is. ’
Relief flooded Melusine. ‘Both of them so wise after the event. With me
behaving as if everything was infinitely matter-of-fact, what could he do? And
just then Heaven sent old Manningtree—I didn’t tell you before of the fortunate
intervention of Manningtree, did I? He was looking quite infernally
distinguished, with a wide crimson ribbon across him—what IS a wide crimson
ribbon? Some sort of knight, I suppose. It will give
me great pleasure to settle an annuity for a moderate amount upon you on certain
conditions. ”
“Yes. Lord, but it was a nun! Just as he had suspected.
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