I came to London to look for you, and somehow the figure I saw in my dreams had got mixed up with you. Lord Charvill’s sense of justice would not, however, allow him to repudiate his granddaughter, if indeed this female proved to be the infant lost to the family so many years ago. He realized that he was committed to the path across the fields, an uninteresting walk at the best of times. In spite of God and wasps and her father, she had stolen plums; and once because of discovered misdeeds, and once because she had realized that her mother was dead, she had lain on her face in the unmown grass, beneath the elmtrees that came beyond the vegetables, and poured out her soul in weeping. Listening on the dimlit landing, he saw Roding’s face muscles tighten. In the pause she realized the attention of the others converged upon her, and that the tears were brimming over her eyes. They sat in the front row. There were the burnt papers still in the grate. He had drawn a horrid picture of the fate that awaited mademoiselle when once the populace discovered her relationship to the Valade family. Kneebone—she was too well acquainted; having, more than once, been obliged to repel his advances; and, though his impertinence would have given her little concern at another season, it now added considerably to her distraction. Go out there and head him off, will you? Tell him anything you like, but don’t let him in, and don’t tell him Melusine is here.
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