Hastening to the spot where he had tied his horse to a tree, he vaulted into the saddle, and rode off across the fields,—for he was fearful of encountering the hostile party,—till he reached the Edgeware Road. “Why should one pretend?” she whispered. Once or twice she commented upon it, but she knew that it was resultant of his fear of her impending departure. Ruth was at that stage where the absorption of facts is great, but where the mental digestion is not quite equal to the task. The spinster saw herself growing warm again in the morning sunshine of youth —a flaring ember before the hearth grew cold. They were ingenious disguises of gilt paper destructively gummed, it would seem, to Ann Veronicas’ best dancing-slippers. ’ ‘I didn’t bring him,’ Gerald returned swiftly. " "I have a question to propose to you," said Trenchard, "relating to—" and he hesitated. ‘Why did he make me French, Marthe? Why did he give me this name of Melusine, and say I am born of Suzanne Valade?’ Martha looked at her, but her lips remained firmly closed. ’ Taking the chair she had indicated with a careless wave of one stiff-fingered hand, Gerald felt hope burgeoning. I don’t understand the workings of a gentleman’s mind.
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