He would
get her to come to tea with him, usually in a pleasant tea-room over a fruit-shop
in Tottenham Court Road, and he would discuss his own point of view and hint
at a thousand devotions were she but to command him. ” Lucy
replied, and brushed past him on the stair. ‘You are related to General Lord Charvill?’
‘Monsieur le baron, he is my grandpére,’ she confirmed. A slow
anger burned in the man. Melusine gave herself a little mental shake. ’ He believes that she denies it simply because owing to
my marriage with Sir John, whom they call the ‘Puritan Knight,’ she wants to
keep her identity secret. Manning,
all this sort of thing is very well as sentiment, but does it correspond with the
realities? Are women truly such angelic things and men so chivalrous? You men
have, I know, meant to make us Queens and Goddesses, but in practice—well,
look, for example, at the stream of girls one meets going to work of a morning,
round-shouldered, cheap, and underfed! They aren’t queens, and no one is
treating them as queens. ”
She was frightened—his anger always did frighten her—and in her resolve to
conceal her fright she carried a queen-like dignity to what she felt even at the
time was a preposterous pitch. “This is all rot!” he declared angrily. ’
Melusine gasped. . The river, the big buildings on the north bank, Westminster, and St.
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