’ ‘A French ghost?’ ‘Well, it ain’t a rat this time, Major, I can promise you that,’ Pottiswick had rejoined, his tone affronted. Then—then we shall be together. She looked round wildly, as if seeking some source of help, as the boots halted at the front door and the shouting intensified. Blue haze had settled beyond the black silhouettes of trees, graduating to the deep violet that began the night sky. Her lips parted, but no words came. Vitally, she had the letter that proved her identity as a Charvill: the one her father had written to the Abbess when he sent her to the convent. She sank upon her knees and unbuttoned his coat. ‘What the devil for?’ ‘Messenger,’ Gerald explained. She had only to get through this, to solace Manning as much as she could, to put such clumsy plasterings on his wounds as were possible, and then, anyhow, she would be free—free to put her fate to the test. A vein of conviction mingled with his burlesque. She thought gleefully of the dress she would get to wear for the Ball (Prom?) and could not wait to tell her foster family about how excited she was. And God had let him do it! He was—and now he perfectly understood that he was—treading the queerest labyrinth a man had ever entered. " "Be it so!" rejoined Sir Rowland, with concentrated fury; "but before we do part, I am resolved to know the name of your pretended husband!" "Torture shall not wrest it from me," answered his sister, firmly. Goodbye. Then she looked at her aunt, and traced with a curious eye the careful arrangement of her hair, her sharp nose, the little drooping lines of mouth and chin and cheek.
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