Brown broke the silence. Melusine flung herself down the rest of the steps and through the
doorway. “Very well,” he said. “It was unpleasant while it lasted, but it is over
—and my toasted scones are delicious. Manning in fancy costume, as though he was a doll. Why was she noting things like this? Capes seemed selfpossessed and elaborately genial and commonplace, but she knew him to be
nervous by a little occasional clumsiness, by the faintest shadow of vulgarity in
the urgency of his hospitality. ’
‘That is what you thought of me. . Manning, Lady Palsworthy’s nephew, a tall young man of seven-and-thirty with
a handsome, thoughtful, impassive face, a full black mustache, and a certain
heavy luxuriousness of gesture. But once he had steered the lady down the hall
and along a passage to a window seat at the end, he abandoned the subject of
society. She walked through the office to the
door, aimlessly. “Why not? It might amuse me. I could not keep away any longer. It’s awkward,
but we’ll get round it somehow. And this though he was evidently
passionately in love with her.
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