A nurse came hurrying up. I thought my sister and her murdered husband dragged me hither, to this very room, and commanded you to slay me. She cried out his name in ecstasy. “You poor child!” he said; “don’t you see the infinite folly of these proceedings? Think! Think of the love and affection you abandon! Think of your aunt, a second mother to you. “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. His fingers cherished the hilt of his sword and his eyes were on his friend and superior, ready at his back to do whatever was needed. The touch of his lips neither thrilled nor alarmed her, because the eyes that looked into hers were clean. How she had fought her eagerness in the beginning, lest it reveal her ignorance of the marvels of mankind! The terror and ecstasy of that night in Singapore— the first city she had ever seen! There was still the impression that something akin to a miracle had piloted her successfully from one ordeal to another. Capes and her father stood up, and her father made a belated movement toward the curtain. 271 His parents suggested that he go into therapy. But it must have been something that could show her to be Mary’s daughter. The noose was at its throat when I called for help. ‘But for how long?’ Lady Bicknacre asked apprehensively. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words that express it—a very great lark indeed.
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