‘If it is that your men there
are going to arrest us, then why do they not do so?’
‘Left to myself, I’d let them,’ he replied grimly. ”
She brought her knees up to her chest, and rocked
back and forth like a small child. Was
there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully
furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were
they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a
rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going
astray. ’
‘Why should you care?’ demanded Roding, exasperated. Annabel believed it, came to England and married
Sir John. And instead of accepting the situation
gratefully, he felt vaguely hurt!
One evening in September a proa rasped in upon the beach. How can you protect me? Moreover, it is
stealing that you have done, and therefore—’
‘Don’t tell me you expect me to arrest myself again. “We always have things out with OUR father, poor dear!” said Hetty. And she would have to go tomorrow. It
had thrust her back with an undignified scuffle, with vulgar comedy, with an
unendurable, scornful grin.
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