"But we must be getting along if we
are to lunch in the tower of the water-clock. ”
“Except,” said Constance, surveying her work with her head on one side, “to
keep the matches from the litter. ”
Then she looked up at him with frightened eyes. One of the things that most surprised him in her was her capacity for blind
obedience. ”
“Until some one takes pity on me and marries me?”
He raised his eyebrows in mild appeal. ‘Why not a French flag?’
‘Because I don’t believe that fool Pottiswick could tell French from Arabic,
even if he heard it as he says he did—which I take leave to doubt. She flew up the covered
stairs and knocked upon his door. I said I hadn’t been at the Royal Society soiree for four years,
and got him to tell me about some of the fresh Mendelian work. They walked across a moat of pea gravel
that crunched like noisy cereal under their feet. ”
“It’s so strange to think of you—troubled by such things. Sheppard, as I
told you, is in Bedlam, an incurable maniac; while her son is in the New Prison,
whence he will only be removed to Newgate and Tyburn. “Why come after me after all these years, Sebastianus?
Haven’t you found any sycophants to convert, any nubile
young nymphets to bring into the cannibal flock?”
“Why should I do that if there is still the chance of
you?”
“What if there could be no chance of me? How do
you know you can have me?”
“I see your game.
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