‘Yes, don’t interrupt me,’ said Captain Roding severely. His most eager inquiries and most lavish bribes could gain no further information than that she had left for England, and that her address was—London. And who knew if the men that Gerald had posted there would follow her to protect her somewhere else? In truth, where were these soldiers? She could not see them, although she assiduously searched the mist-shrouded square from the vantage point of the bay window in the large first floor room which had become her headquarters. She would have just to keep the fifteen pounds until she could make it twenty. The fact that she stayed on and risked being discovered so foolishly was a testament to something, but what? Lucy’s new form elicited stares and comments from acquaintances before even walking through the doors of Lincoln High School. The London backgrounds, in Bloomsbury and Marylebone, against which these people went to and fro, took on, by reason of their gray facades, their implacably respectable windows and window-blinds, their reiterated unmeaning iron railings, a stronger and stronger suggestion of the flavor of her father at his most obdurate phase, and of all that she felt herself fighting against. ’ ‘I have English a little,’ the girl offered, her voice shaking as she essayed a smile and sank into a curtsy.
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