” “Hampstead didn’t suit Lady Ferringhall,” Ennison remarked. To have you is all important. His salvation—if there was to be any—lay in her ignorance of life. For nothing will ever convince me that it is not the man’s share in life to shield, to protect, to lead and toil and watch and battle with the world at large. Quite!” He sat in the arm-chair and took tea, and consumed several of the extra cakes which she had sent out for and talked to her and expressed himself, looking very earnestly at her with his deep-set eyes, and carefully avoiding any crumbs on his mustache the while. ‘And why not?’ ‘Because,’ Gerald said matter of factly, ‘convent-bred jeune demoiselles do not commonly know how to handle either pistols or daggers. Nor, he would wager, had the heroic Monsieur Valade, who had rescued her from that life and brought her to England, taught her in that short time all that Gerald was certain she knew of men. I did not know how he would act if I obstructed him. The poor things! Oh, it was quite dreadful. 1. He might have been a complete innocent, she did not know and did not bother to find out. She had denied it with vigor, and here she was! She did not so much exhaust this general question as pass from it to her insoluble individual problem again: “What am I to do?” She wanted first of all to fling the forty pounds back into Ramage’s face. Suddenly she had become afraid. “We’ll go together. By a miracle, he averted its path, his hold on the girl’s mouth shifting fast to grasp her wrist.
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