’
‘Well, I am glad he did not,’ intervened Lucilla, forestalling another withering
comment from the captain. A
few more minutes, and she was safe. Even now he was not at all sure that she was not
playing with him. “I am getting plain,” she said, with a little shudder. Robbed of their prey, the fury of the mob became ungovernable. “You really couldn’t ride in it,” he said, deprecatingly. “Vee,” she said, “come home. My mind is full of ideas and images that I have been cherishing
and accumulating—dreams of travelling side by side, of lunching quietly
together in some jolly restaurant, of moonlight and music and all that side of life,
of seeing you dressed like a queen and shining in some brilliant throng—mine;
of your looking at flowers in some old-world garden, our garden—there are
splendid places to be got down in Surrey, and a little runabout motor is quite
within my means. “How would you prevent it?” she
asked. I
speak no harm of her. ”
“Relaxation, perhaps. Once the ship faltered, and the tip of this jade wall broke into a million gems and
splashed him liberally. “Too late, my dear girl,” she exclaimed. He heard the struggle on the landing, the fall of the heavy body, the
groan,—and excited almost to frenzy by his fears, he succeeded in forcing open
the door.
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