“I wonder what he will do?” She tried to imagine situations that might arise
out of Ramage’s antagonism, for he had been so bitter and savage that she could
not believe that he would leave things as they were. She looked up and said, a little
breathlessly, “I’m sorry, aunt, but I don’t think I can. But with Gosse and the woman in prison here, there is
always the chance that the whole affair may be raked up all over again. Automatically, she glanced at the slight red graze left on her neck that marked
the point where Gerald’s sword had nicked her. Having heard
from Thames that you were better, and that your sole anxiety was about me, I
came to give you the first intelligence of my escape. "
O'Higgins extracted a cigar from a pocket and inspected it. "I hope not. He was
perhaps forty-five years of age. The place, in which they stood, was a small entrance-chamber, cut off, like the
segment of a circle, from the main apartment, (of which it is needless to say it
originally constituted a portion,) by a stout wooden partition. “You shall drive home with me in a hansom, if you will. The lady grasped it more firmly and turned it upon Hilary. Since her husband
has laid me under such a weight of obligation, I couldn't, in honour, continue—
hem!" and he took another explanatory pinch.
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