‘How could you possibly know it?’
‘I know it,’ Lucilla told him frostily, ‘because Dorothée told me that Madame
Valade went off with Gerald positively purring in her ear—which is a thing he
never does—and came back with him looking like the cat after cream. Her
face is shaped funny, real long and skinny, and she has no
chin. . She practiced
swaddling on a doll, pretending to pat the head of her
imaginary infant boy. “My dear Miss Stanley, when I talked to you the other afternoon of work and
politics and such-like things, my mind was all the time resenting it beyond
measure. She pawed at him, her hunger for
his body making her dizzy with anticipation. “Would YOU like us—if some one told you the bare outline of our story?—
and what we are doing?”
“I shouldn’t mind,” said Ann Veronica. "But we'll find a way to make you
open your lips presently. ’
‘What, even less delightful than Gerald?’ enquired Lucilla, her eyes dancing. If he took a fancy
to you, he invited you to the house for tea, bitter and yellow and served in little
cups without handles. His fellow-prisoners nicknamed him the
gallows-provider, from a habit he had of picking out all those who were destined
to the gibbet. I
cannot explain beyond that. I myself have had the pleasure of dining with her. Her clock had
stopped—stopped at the very hour on which she had quitted the Mint! She had
not the heart to wind it up again.
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