”
“On the contrary,” Anna whispered quietly, “we met in a small boarding-house
where I was stopping. Arrived in England, she had sought out Gosse, to keep an eye on his activities
and thus keep one step ahead of him, meanwhile hoping that she might find
herself another means of proof at Remenham House. "
"Then I'll lend a helping hand. “This is wonderful! I’ve been feeling
that you had vanished from my world. She
glanced at the soft-ticking clock with the exposed brass pendulum upon the
white marble mantel, and made a rapid calculation. They parked a block away from Michelle’s house in
the opposite direction of where the Beck’s lived. She was civil, but
she was obviously impatient to know his errand. ”
“You mean—you think——”
“Hush! I think that he was concealed in my room, and Annabel and he met there. ‘It is, you understand, that Monsieur Charvill did not—how do you say in
English?—having an eye to an eye—’
‘Didn’t see eye to eye with the Vicomte Valade? That I can well believe. She found it extremely difficult to infuse an air of quiet correctitude into her
return through the window, and when she was safely inside she waved clinched
fists and executed a noiseless dance of rage. Opening a pair of large black eyes, the child fixed them for an instant
upon Wood, and then, alarmed by the light, uttered a low and melancholy cry,
which, however, was speedily stilled by the caresses of his mother, towards
whom he extended his tiny arms, as if imploring protection. It is for that reason that
this novel begins with her there, and neither earlier nor later, for it is the history
of this crisis and its consequences that this novel has to tell.
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