When her shock and the headache subsided, and she
remembered that she had been reading the letter when Gosse had accosted her,
she looked for it in vain. Lucy stared like an automaton at Michelle’s unconscious
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body, revolted at her own actions to the point of shock. . Michelle repeated herself brashly, “A vampire, silly. He had not addressed to her even the most ordinary courtesy
of fellow travellers; she doubted that he was even aware of her existence. He looked like a French
boy soldier she had once glimpsed marching towards his
death in one of the battles they would later call the
Hundred Years War. She tried
to keep her side up by declaring that he had put her into an impossible position,
and he replied by shouting, “Nonsense! Nonsense! Any father in my place would
have done what I did. He waited for an instant, wasting an encouraging smile in the
imperfect light, and then shut the doors of the van, leaving the women in
darkness. 47 was no more than a sort of railway compartment on the
way to that. "It is droll," he said. Pretend to weep both of you as loudly as you can. And nearly all these things were fearfully ill-paid. I am almost
old enough to be your father. ’
Thus adjured, but mindful of Trodger’s orders, the militiaman went down the
hall backwards, his eyes fixed on the prisoner.
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