Chapter XX ANNA’S SURRENDER “This is indeed a gala night,” said Ennison, raising his glass, and watching for a moment the golden bubbles. All the talk in the world would not describe Ruth. Besides, it was under false pretences. “But if some one else asked your advice? If some one else said, ‘Here is my teacher, a jaded married man on the verge of middle age, and he and I have a violent passion for one another. On returning to the audience-chamber, Jonathan found the inanimate body of Thames Darrell lying where he had left it; but, on examining it, he remarked that the pockets were turned inside out, and had evidently been rifled. ‘Maybe not,’ Gerald conceded, ‘but I’m damned if I herald my approach with a lot of unnecessary blundering about in the dark. ‘You’re right. With the immediate necessities in train, Melusine fell to brooding on her situation, which she found insupportable. "Hoity-toity! You owe me sixteen thousand dollars. He might call her wife, but she refused to give him his wedding night. ’ He believes that she denies it simply because owing to my marriage with Sir John, whom they call the ‘Puritan Knight,’ she wants to keep her identity secret. ’ Upon which, she darted through the library door, galvanising both the sergeant and his two militiamen into action.
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