235 “No, I think she’s out sick with a throat infection. Not one of them but bore the marks of having been engaged in a recent and severe conflict. Do you think that it makes for happiness to force oneself into the extravagant belief that love is the only thing in the world worth having, and to sacrifice for it independence, self-respect, one’s whole scheme of life. “This is all madness,” she declared wearily. ’ ‘Your plan, then. Drenched to the skin,—in fact, he had been lying in a bed of muddy water,—and chilled to the very bone, he felt so stiff, that he could scarcely move. Hers were less noble, yet stately. Then light footsteps became audible, descending the staircase with a certain deliberation and a faint rustle of skirts. ‘What the devil for?’ ‘Messenger,’ Gerald explained. There is Lady Arlingford’s reception to-night, ten till twelve, and the Hatton House ball, marked with a cross, sir, important. ‘Exactement. How did you meet him?’ ‘He was wounded and came to the convent for sanctuary,’ Melusine told him, stung by his criticism into revealing more than she had intended.
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