The first Step towards the Ladder. ’
She sagged a little suddenly, as if the painful memories in her mind had
exhausted her body. ‘I am saying so,’ protested Gerald mildly. ’
***
The tapping for which Melusine had been waiting came at last. Not many years ago, two men, employed on this duty, quarrelled
during the night, and in the morning their bodies were found stretched upon the
pavement of the yard beneath. He could not tell by the look of her whether she was glad or sorry that presently
she would be free. Apparently, Jonathan perceived he was an object of scrutiny; for, hastily
dismissing his attendant, he walked towards the knight. "Swear that you will do this," she cried. But his grief
was of short duration. What a pity!
For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the
physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had
seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet
instead of four—broken, without resilience. White assured her. For a time they walked in silence.
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