Melusine turned and turned, unable to imagine just where the secret door could be. His conscience, however, was entirely another affair. Now, she was the very reverse of all this. She laughed as the deluge seemed to grow worse with every step. 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. ‘I suppose this is the cavalier you had with you when you—er—attended the ball the other night?’ ‘Jacques is very useful to me,’ Melusine confirmed, bestowing that same radiant smile on the young man, whose features were instantly suffused with scarlet. She would flee to the wild fastnesses, the places where there were no overarching systems of any use, where she could blend with the unstable populace and kill in relative peace. Indeed, a note of weeping broke her voice for a moment as she burst out, “You know as well as I do that money was a loan!” “Loan!” “You yourself called it a loan!” “Euphuism. “I hope you’re satisfied. And then you go—and half throttle me. ‘Naturally I had to come,’ confirmed the lively blonde, her eyes twinkling up at Alderley. “I have never forgotten. Ann Veronica had come down thinking of nothing in the world but her inflexible resolution to go to the dance in the teeth of all opposition. The passion of pent-up speech compelled action of some sort. .
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