It had ever
been her policy, much to Melusine’s relief, for she was apt to complain that it
only made her mad and there was nothing she could do about it. Apparently she was always doomed to weep when
she talked to her father. A hush descended across the audience as instruments
tuned, creating small ladders of fifths that collapsed
abruptly, snatches of solos that disappeared and
reappeared like gags in a house of mirrors. “It was a bad day for me,” he said, speaking slowly and painfully. She would end alone. I said, that day at Surbiton, ‘There’s many good things in life, but
there’s only one best, and that’s the wild-haired girl who’s pulling away at that
oar. The girl was pretty, and apparently a
lady. But you must promise me not to go near that abandoned
hussy at Willesden. Earles,” she said, “that if I were to tell you that although that
poster was designed from a rough study of me, and although my name is
Pellissier, that nevertheless, I am not ‘Alcide’ would you believe me?”
“You can try it on, if you like,” Mr. ’
Abruptly, the niggling doubt that had been plaguing Lord Charvill came
sweeping to the surface. ‘If you did not want me to talk of it,’ she told him with characteristic
insouciance, ‘you should not have mentioned the matter to me. ’
‘Pah! Am I a fool? Have you not this moment past said how he did not?’
Agitation sent her to her feet. ’
‘So this is the way you serve me,’ exclaimed Melusine, her quick temper
flaring as she jumped up, slammed her hands on the desk and leaned towards
him over it.
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