This left Spurlock alone. The Palazzo was unlike anything she had ever known. ‘You dare to come to me? What do you wish of
me? Why have you come? I do not want you!’ She swept round on Gerald
abruptly and he braced for the onslaught. Loving was better than that. Here was the place behind the shed
where she had used to hide from Roddy’s persecutions, and here the border of
herbaceous perennials under whose stems was fairyland. He was conscious of a peculiar pleasure in
sitting there and thinking of those few hours which already were becoming to
assume a definite importance in his mind—a place curiously apart from those
dry-as-dust images which had become the gods of his prosaic life. He was always doing his best to call her attention to the fact
that he was a man of spirit and quality and experience, and she a young and
beautiful woman, and that all sorts of constructions upon their relationship were
possible, trusting her to go on from that to the idea that all sorts of relationships
were possible. ’
A sudden frown sprang to the fellow’s face. There was only one sound—the
fall of the sea upon the main beach, and even that said: "Hush! Hush! Hus-s-sh!"
Not a leaf stirred, not a shadow moved. Sir Rowland Trenchard is aware of
your return to England. The door was closed—
locked,—and the pair were heard descending the stairs. However, if you must air your opinions—”
“To-night, then, daddy!”
He made an angry but conceivably an assenting noise, and then Ramage
glanced back and stopped, saluted elaborately, and waited for them to come up. “A man like that taints a girl by looking at her, by his mere conversation. Never did I need a rescue so much.
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