Doctor Ralph came
in to tea and put his arm round Alice and kissed her, and Alice called him
“Squiggles,” and stood in the shelter of his arms for a moment with an
expression of satisfied proprietorship. For all her begging she had been given the choice to go
into the nunnery and “learn how to read scrolls with the
rest of God’s Spinsters” by her father, but had quickly
lost interest when presented with the idea of bearing
babies. ”
“If he lives through the next hour,” the doctor answered, “I will send some one. Shoplatch. And it is not at all his affair. ‘Could she have been a spy, after
all?’
‘Oh, she’s not a spy,’ Gerald answered, almost absently. Lucia, you will come to love me and all the
blessings of the Lord that marriage brings. I asked him why, and he hadn’t a reason. I
thought that you were he. I have it
on my conscience that I offended you—”
“Offended me when?”
“I’ve been haunted by the memory of you. "Nothing—nothing," she answered, bursting into tears.
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