It wasn’t clear to
me that I had to explain. Martin was the only person to directly address Lucy again,
trying to reassure her that “real vampires melt in direct
sunlight. “I’ll go,” he said, “but I warn you that I shall find you out. And a
ballot-box—” Her face assumed an expression of intellectual conflict. What was he doing? What was he thinking? It was less
than a day now, less than twenty hours. Melusine came back to the present to discover that tears were rolling down her
cheeks. Once
upon a time she and Roddy had descended thence by the drain-pipe. Sheppard made an effort to speak, but her voice was choked by emotion. It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply
and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she
could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. “It—it—must come,” she faltered. His feet would have the firm texture of his hands. It was no wonder, there was no money to
buy food for the house.
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