‘And why not?’ ‘Because,’ Gerald said matter of factly, ‘convent-bred jeune demoiselles do not commonly know how to handle either pistols or daggers. What was she going to do? One main idea possessed her: she must get away from home, she must assert herself at once or perish. Her heart's in the right place, at all events; and, since that's the case, the rest may perhaps come round, —that is, if she gets through her present illness. I am fairly well hardened in iniquity—your iniquity, Annabel—but I decline to have a husband thrust upon me. “You think that this is all. In after years you can return to your own country—to your friends. All her tender lures, inherent and acquired, had shattered themselves futilely against the reserve he had set between them.
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