She could have dined alone in her room; but courage had demanded that she face the ordeal and have done with it. ‘For God’s sake, let go my hand,’ he begged. Glancing around his prison, he began to think it possible he might effect an escape from it. He went over his interview with her again, their conversation at dinner-time. She sat, crouched together, by the corner of the hearthrug under the bookcase that supported the pig’s skull, and looked into the fire and up at Ann Veronica’s face, and let herself go. Here he halted; and, looking upwards, read, at the foot of an immense sign-board, displaying a gaudily-painted angel with expanded pinions and an olive-branch, not the name he expected to find, but that of WILLIAM KNEEBONE, WOOLLENDRAPER. She tried not to pant, not to reveal herself, and she began to shake. ’ ‘Hadn’t the wit, you mean. Sheppard. Where is your hat?’ ‘Parbleu, is this a way to rescue me?’ Melusine demanded, digging in her heels and wrenching her arm out of his hold. Chapter XVII THE CHANGE IN “ALCIDE” “By-the-bye,” his neighbour asked him languidly, “who is our hostess?” “Usually known, I believe, as Lady Ferringhall,” Ennison answered, “unless I have mixed up my engagement list and come to the wrong house.
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