‘Have I not said so?’ ‘No, as it happens. ” She glanced at Brendon, who stood by her side, tall and threatening. “Hullo!” Courtlaw, haggard, his deep-set eyes more brilliant than ever, took Anna’s hand into his, and breathed a little close drawn sigh of content. “You too sing?” he asked. She sat drawn together in her chair in the corner of the box, at a loss what to say or do—afraid, curious, perplexed. “What made you marry him? What made you leave Paris without a word to any one? What made you and your sister exchange identities?” “There is one answer to all those questions, Nigel,” she said, with a nervous little shudder. It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. ’ ‘In this case, I do not at all wish to marry you,’ Melusine threw at him furiously. It was as if she had grown right past her father into something older and of infinitely wider outlook, as if he had always been unsuspectedly a flattened figure, and now she had discovered him from the other side. The little room was fragrant with flowers, Anna herself bright, and with all the evidences of well being. ” “You are at least aware,” he said, “that you have on several recent occasions acted in direct opposition to my wishes. The idea of Ruth as a talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea— faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself.
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