So, then, when McClintock offered the coveted haven, Spurlock became afire to dramatize the idea. Happily they had no one else to wait for, and it heartened her mightily to think that she had ordered the promptest possible service of the dinner. He was unusually absurd and ready, and all the time it seemed to Ann Veronica as a delightful possibility, as a thing not indeed to be entertained seriously, but to be half furtively felt, that he was being so agreeable because she had come back again. She understood. “Thank you, Martin,” she replied graciously. “She has gone down into the country. Melusine ripped strips off her under-petticoats and fashioned a pad, which she bandaged as tightly as she could over the wound, working swiftly, unperturbed by the gore. What she had termed illuminative now appeared to be only another phase of the mystery which enveloped the child. She was not squeamish—although the sight of the sergeant’s ominous preparations had severely tried her fortitude—but Kimble’s white face plagued her conscience. She washed her face with unwonted elaboration before she went to bed. They were standing face to face now upon the hearthrug. He reappeared in street clothes, his cropped hair not even damp from the shower, fresh-faced and sweetsmelling. “We banished his experiments to here in the basement from then on. “Let me introduce you to Caesar,” he said; and she patted Caesar’s neck, and remarked how soft his nose was, and secretly deplored the ugliness of equine teeth.
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