Once inside, he looked around, worried that his parents would suddenly cancel their trip and return home. . “It was unpleasant while it lasted, but it is over —and my toasted scones are delicious. ’ Alderley glanced round the bedchamber. ’ There was satisfaction in Melusine’s voice. Yet either the rest or the wine seemed already to have done him good. “I trust,” he said, “that you will recognize the justice of these conditions. “I heard the other day that she’d been taken in by some cad of a fellow who was cutting a great dash in Paris, personating Meysey Hill, the great railway man. Satisfied, however, that she did not notice him, Jonathan glided away as noiselessly as he came, and ascended another short flight of stairs leading to the garret. The gentleman appealed to shook his head in reply, coughed as only a Dutchman can cough, and raising his hand from the bowl of his pipe, went through precisely the same mysterious ceremonial as the Master. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom he had just left.
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