‘Parbleu, I hope that I do not have many more times to come in this way to the house,’ she muttered fretfully. Danger, in the form he apprehended, was lurking outside: nor was he destined to enjoy long repose. This, then, was the woman from whom Hoddy would not have accepted a cup of water. ‘Does Charvill know that this Melusine of yours is here?’ The question distracted Gerald. Melusine choked on a laugh, and Gerald at once seized the initiative, speaking in a tone deliberately soothing. A sprinkling of callow youths, and a couple of pronounced young Jews, who were talking loudly together in some unintelligible jargon of the City. Gerald crossed back to the window. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. His perseverance was amply rewarded. You have been to me like a mother, not only a wetnurse.
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