She thought of leaving the Beck house less and less these days, though the suitcase remained packed underneath her creaky bed. The mock astonishment of his face immediately became genuine. It may be well, therefore, before proceeding farther, to describe it more minutely. “You understand, then,” he was saying, “you understand?” “I understand,” said Ann Veronica, tear-wet and flushed with a reciprocal passion, but standing up to him with an equality that amazed even herself, “I understand. Into this hole in the wall and out of it the native stream flowed from sunrise to sunset, when the stream mysteriously ceased. You have just passed through rather a severe physical struggle; just as previously to your collapse you had gone through some terrific mental strain. ’ ‘He said!’ Melusine uttered scornfully. My opportunities have been immense, and my failure utter. Descending the hollow, or rather excavation,—for it was an old disused clay-pit, at the bottom of which the cottage was situated,—he speedily succeeded in arousing the ancient sibyl, and having committed Edgeworth Bess to her care, with a promise of an abundant reward in case she watched diligently over her safety, and attended to her comforts till his return,—to all which Black Mary readily agreed,—he departed with a heart lightened of half its load.
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