" "From some of your associates?" "From your uncle, from my uncle,—Sir Rowland Trenchard. Michelle stood perplexed. " "Pray cease these compliments," returned Winifred, "and, if you have any communication to make, do not delay it. He had seen the announcement of your marriage in the papers, and he imagined that I simply wanted to remain unknown because of your husband’s puritanism. ‘Why?’ Melusine eyed him dubiously. Why should she trouble herself over that young fool, who was nothing to her; who, when he eventually sobered up, would not be able to recognize her, or if he did, as something phantasmagorical? Perhaps he should not apply the term "fool"; "unfortunate" might be the more accurate application. An ancient smile lay on his lips. The thought had not even occurred to him. Melusine choked on a laugh, and Gerald at once seized the initiative, speaking in a tone deliberately soothing. He began a jerky, broken conversation that lasted until they reached the station, and left her puzzled at its drift and meaning.
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