The aunt laughed. ”
He was very indifferent. ‘What are you going to do now, Gerald?’
He sipped his wine and shrugged. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. It was about—a question of what I might do or
might not do. Eh bien, why did he
not repeat it? What was she to say?
‘Prudence,’ she began hesitantly, pronouncing the name in the French way,
‘has said that she will help me to—to marry an Englishman. Red velvet curtains
rustled under dim lights as the door shut with a heavy
snap. Use the gilt, man!"
"There's no need of picklock or crow-bar, here, Mr.
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