“I tell you it was a lie!” he shouted wildly. This threat terrified Ann Veronica
so much that she declared with sobs and vehemence that she would never come
home again, and for a time both talked at once and very wildly. “Be so good as to stand away from that door at once, sir,” Brendon ordered. "
"It is past," rejoined Lady Trafford, recovering herself by a powerful effort; "but
never allude to the circumstance again. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. “Oh. ‘You know about that?’
‘It was the only possible deduction. She ran to the lamp and extinguished it. This—’ waving
an imperious hand in a sweeping arc about the library ‘—is my house. Funny codgers, aren't they?" he said. ‘One thing at a time, missie. In the mean time, let me advise you as a friend not to irritate him
by a refusal, which would be as useless as vexatious. ‘What do you mean?’
‘You have papers of identity, for the Mother Abbess told me so. The afternoon had passed now into twilight. I can’t do it even decently myself, and I
dare not run the risk of ruining all my clothes.
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