I
suppose you will think me very unsisterly and cold-hearted, but there are
circumstances in connexion with my sister’s latest exploit which are intensely
irritating both to my husband and to myself. Whatever you need to do, it is your business. The account of the discovery of Sir Rowland's murder filled Winifred with
alarm; but when she learnt what had befallen Thames—how he had been
stricken down by the thief-taker's bludgeon, and left for dead, she uttered a
piercing scream, fainted, and would have fallen, if Jack had not caught her in his
arms. We ourselves have been similarly circumstanced. She had money
of her own—much more than I have—and there was no need to squabble about
that. She fought the
inclination for a while, then surrendered. She had been quite convinced that an
engagement with him and at last a marriage had exactly that quality of
compromise which distinguishes the ways of the wise. Then she was turning, ignoring the muttered cursing and the rattling that
immediately ensued at the door. ”
Part 6
In the afternoon she resumed her search for apartments. “How unkind!” she exclaimed. ‘How do you like England?’
‘People have been very kind,’ Valade said, answering for them both. He cannot.
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