Melusine feigned a displeased frown. Now I know that you
don’t live as close to the Beck house as you once
pretended. After dinner Ann Veronica went into the
drawing-room with Miss Stanley, and her father went up to his den for his pipe
and pensive petrography. She stole her
glances sideways like the rest of the women. ‘What can I do, miss?’
‘Nothing at all,’ cried Melusine. ’
There was a pause. She crept behind the open door and pounced on him
when he came out of the bathroom, knocking him onto
the floor with a loud thud. It was Sunday evening—a soft delicious evening, and, from the happy, cheerful
look of the house, none would have dreamed of the dismal tragedy so lately
acted within its walls. "Did you never see two
gentlemen with only a couple of peepers between them before!"
"Never, I'll be sworn!" said Smith, taking the opportunity of filling his glass
while his comrade's back was turned; "we're a nat'ral cur'osity. They agreed
to lend her their hold-all and a large, formless bag which they called the
communal trunk. Holding down the light, he perceived that the wounded man had risen to the
surface, and was trying to clamber up the slippery sides of the well. As soon as she
noticed the stranger, she honoured him with an extremely impudent stare, and
scarcely endeavoured to disguise the admiration with which his good looks
impressed her.
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