Here are their letters. ’
‘Oui, mais—’
‘You are, without exception, the most unprincipled, the most unscrupulous, the
most shameless, immoral, devious—’
‘Pardon me, sir,’ burst in Mrs Ibstock suddenly, her tone belligerent, bringing
the captain’s tirade to an abrupt halt as he turned to glare at her. ‘How could you possibly know it?’
‘I know it,’ Lucilla told him frostily, ‘because Dorothée told me that Madame
Valade went off with Gerald positively purring in her ear—which is a thing he
never does—and came back with him looking like the cat after cream. He was the true optimist; and that he should proceed, serenely
unconscious of reefs and storms, she accepted the double buffets. “And even then—”
The conversation hung for a thoughtful moment. Her aunt had summoned up an altogether too vivid picture of her father as the
masterful man, overbearing, emphatic, sentimental, noisy, aimless. ”
“Why couldn’t you do that at home?”
“I’m working at the Imperial College. ‘Could she have been a spy, after
all?’
‘Oh, she’s not a spy,’ Gerald answered, almost absently. What’s that?”
They both stood listening. ’
‘When you begin to tell the truth,’ Gerald told her severely, ‘I shall be happy
to believe you. He touched it again, and this time it was not
withdrawn. "Bless your soul!
d'ye think I'm to be gammoned by such nonsense. And guess
what? I don’t sleep much, if you haven’t noticed.
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