“You propose, then,” she remarked, “that I shall still be saddled with a pseudo husband. ’ ‘Yes,’ agreed Lucilla excitedly, ‘and she has been telling us how much of a friend she was to your mother. His hair had begun to gray, his belly had just begun to round. How was I to know what would happen? He always said if he couldn’t get you a dowry, you could take the veil. ‘Wait! No time for that. He could not pull her soul apart now to satisfy that queer absorbing, delving thing which was his literary curiosity; he had put her outside that circle. After this occurence, not a word was exchanged between them until they came in sight of the sloop, which was lying at anchor off Wapping. ’ Speeding down the two flights of stairs, Gerald mentally thanked God that it was the practice of himself and Roding—in case of emergency, of which this was a prime example—to stable their horses at the posting inns all the way to London. Finally she fell into reflection. There were three other ships at anchor; but as two would be making Shanghai and one rounding to Singapore two days hence, it was logically certain that no fugitive would seek haven in one of these. The cold air gave her gooseflesh under her red brocade dress as she slipped outside. Mercifully, John had been sick for two of the three days of Thanksgiving week, giving her reprieve from both his presence and the machinations of Katy Pfister, who was always less active on days when he was not around. Something in his smile, in the cynical suggestiveness of his deferential tone, maddened her. "As it's getting late, and the porter may be gone to bed," he observed; "I'll take the pass-key, and let myself in.
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