Prepared as he was for a dreadful shock, and with his nerves strung to endure it, Jack absolutely recoiled before the appalling object that met his gaze. Perhaps you will explain the state of panic into which I seem to have thrown you. ‘How the deuce did she get out without me seeing her?’ ‘Took advantage of the distraction, cunning little devil,’ Gerald snapped, racing down the corridor. There, in a little tea and sweetstuff shop, she bought and consumed slowly and absent-mindedly the insufficient nourishment that is natural to her sex on such occasions. “Before I took up the Suffrage,” a firm, flat voice remarked, “I could scarcely walk up-stairs without palpitations. Sir John stood upon the threshold. And now I find, when it is too late, that I might have deserved you—that I am as well born as Thames Darrell. Having disposed of his steed and swallowed a glass of brandy, without taking any other refreshment, he threw himself on a couch, where he sank at once into a heavy slumber. Now, as she stared at the image of her own face, she recalled something Major Alderley had said. “But I wish,” she said, “I had some idea what I was really up to.
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