As he passed out he saw in the hall a quietly dressed man with keen grey eyes, talking to one of the footmen. He looked at her with a certain curiosity. "Caught!" shouted the head-turnkey. She walked with long swinging steps, scorning the thought of buses or the tube. Then as she lay very still, with her hands clinched and her black hair tumbled about her face, he came still closer and softly kissed the nape of her neck. The affair was thick with sinister suggestions. He was accompanied by a young man of about seven-and-twenty, who carried his easel, set it in its place, laid the canvass upon it, opened the paint box, took out the brushes and palette, and, in short, paid him the most assiduous attention. ’ The lady shook her head, contriving at the same moment to utter a breathy little laugh. “If you cannot listen to me now it must remain undelivered. ’ ‘Miss Melusine Charvill,’ he repeated, ‘is a convent-bred genteel girl, who is in all probability the granddaughter of General Lord Charvill. All at once he saw a way out of the threatening doldrums. She listened with growing apprehension to the tale that Gerald told, omitting any mention of pistols and daggers, and at the end delivered herself of various expletives highly unsuited to a lady of her advanced years.
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