“Last time I saw you,” he reminded her, “you spoke, did you not, of obtaining
some employment in London. Cursed him for his devotion that had
made him come back for her, only to get himself shot by the fiendish Gosse. What a pity!
For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the
physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had
seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet
instead of four—broken, without resilience. The trees were
graceful and brown, arching and fanning their golden
leaves as if to shower with coins the pink-gold sky. Pain sliced into
Gerald’s hand and his sword arm jerked. ’
‘Who, Joan, who? Of whom do you speak?’
‘Mrs Sindlesham. The man had favoured him with
a brief nod, but the girl had gone so far as to offer a tiny smile, and a look under
her lashes with which not even Gerald, for all his scant interest in female society,
could fail to be familiar. ‘Expect? He’s had a twenty-four hour watch on Remenham
House these two days. “I heard they came from somewhere
outrageous. ‘That is what she wants, is it?’
‘Do you blame her?’ he said stiffly. 59
He was not present during the night the next morning,
or the next, or the next. The dog-fox cannot be far off, since the cub is found.
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