CHAPTER XXVII His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent thought. She had known that Remenham House would be deserted, for Martha—released, as she had carefully explained to her charge, by her vows to God from servitude and obedience to Nicholas Charvill, a mere mortal—had begun a correspondence with a friend of her youth, Mrs Joan Ibstock, née Pottiswick. Since the accession of George the First to the throne in the preceding year, every effort had been made by the partisans of the Stuarts to shake the credit of the existing government, and to gain supporters to their cause. This door, which was open, Jonathan locked and took out the key. I hope—I am sure that he did not see me. “We are only in the dawn of the Age of Friendship,” he said, “when interest, I suppose, will take the place of passions. He took her fingers and lifted his eyes to hers. And he had good reason before long to congratulate himself on his forbearance. My name is Ferringhall—Sir John Ferringhall. What sort of a standard of life yours may be I do not know, yet in your heart you know very well that every word you have spoken to me has been a veiled insult, every time you have come into my presence has been an outrage.
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