Annabel had spoken calmly enough and steadily, but his brain refused at first to
accept the full meaning of her words. In some things, in many things, you must trust to your
elders, to those who know more of life than you do. ’
Roding looked struck. “I was in Paris four years ago,” Mr. Personally, however, I
doubt if—’
‘Charvill?’ interrupted Gerald without ceremony, all his senses at once on the
alert. What hotel should she go to? If she told a
cabman to drive to an hotel, any hotel, what would he do—or say? He might
drive to something dreadfully expensive, and not at all the quiet sort of thing she
required. The affair passed at one leap from a spree to a nightmare of violence and
disgust. The image of Major Alderley came into her mind. ’
The possibility was indeed remote, for there had been no trouble with France
since the Peace of Versailles had been signed six years ago. At Boulogne they took train to Basle; next morning they breakfasted together
in the buffet of that station, and thence they caught the Interlaken express, and so
went by way of Spies to Frutigen. It was she! The Dawn Pearl!
He vaulted the veranda rail, careless now whether or not he was heard, and ran
down to the beach.
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