’ Melusine’s instant annoyance must have shown in her face. Nevertheless, she could not prevent a rising excitement as the dawn of the new life drew near to her—a thrilling of the nerves, a secret and delicious exaltation above the common circumstances of existence. ‘Rather would I die than fall in with such a plan. To perdition with them all. Sheila was often a terror to her husband Mark, who seemed afraid of her. ’ ‘You are perfectly correct,’ agreed Gerald at once. “No, you weren’t bad in the slightest. I dare not reflect upon the effect that her son's fate,—if the efforts to save him are ineffectual,—may have upon her enfeebled frame, and still worse upon her mind. “But where are you going? Lucy, you’re safe here. More,’ he said, ‘but I’m told it’s the most amusing thing in London at the present time.
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