It was nearly one o’clock; but there were lights still in all her windows. The room was worse than pokey, it was shabby; and the view from the window, of chimney pots and slate roofs, wholly uninspiring. Gerald pressed against the wall, and signalled Roding to go to the other side of the door. To her, marriage would be a buckler against the two evils which pursued her. ’ Melusine could not regard this view with anything but scepticism. “When it comes there is no mistaking it. Only one thing emerged with any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage was an experience to be strenuously evaded.
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