” 174 < 21 > THANKSGIVING She padded softly up the old stairs, exhausted and elated. “Pray accept my apologies. Again having recourse to the centre-bit,—for Winifred's door was locked,—Jack had nearly cut out a panel, when a sudden outcry was raised in the carpenter's chamber. She asked the inevitable question, the one she knew Michelle was waiting to field like a quarterback anticipating the pass. A sound sleeper, she was not roused by the creaky openings and closings of drawers as Lucy packed a single duffle bag with underwear and soap that was pilfered from a multipack of Zest in the Beck’s downstairs bathroom. On one side of the handbill a print of the reigning sovereign, Anne, had been pinned over the portrait of William the Third, whose aquiline nose, keen eyes, and luxuriant wig, were just visible above the diadem of the queen. “Who did you live with before the Becks? I hear things. A man might be without relatives, but certainly he would not be without friends, that is to say, without letters. Father and daughter regarded each other warily, each more than a little insecure with the other. “Good, I’m so glad, Lucy. ‘But then again, possibly not. He reached over and took her hand. "An hour hence, I shall return with the priest," replied Jonathan, striding towards the door. To her intense disappointment, she discovered that all papers had been removed from desks and cupboards.
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