Ennison spoke at last. After that night she made it a habit. These were presently joined by a regiment of foot. ‘And how do you propose to get in?’ ‘Scullery window. ‘You’ll come with us and get yourself safe back home to your convent, understand?’ ‘But wait,’ begged Melusine, hanging back. Perhaps Gerald was not as clothheaded as he had thought. She was saying good-bye to childhood and home, and her making; she was going out into the great, multitudinous world; this time there would be no returning. A forgotten island beyond the ship lanes, where that grim Hand would falter and move blindly in its search for him! From what he had read, there wouldn't be much to do; and in the idle hours he could write. ‘I rather suspect,’ added Prudence, ‘that Major Alderley’s motives were somewhat different. It has been already intimated that Jack had an excessive passion for finery; and it might have been added, that the chief part of his ill-gotten gains was devoted to the embellishment of his person. All his dreams shattered in an instant.
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