‘She won’t confide in you? Now, why?’ ‘Because that scoundrel Leonardo drummed it into her head that no man was to be trusted,’ Gerald announced viciously. ’ Then all at once remembrance made her smile. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. The crowner's 'quest sat on her yesterday—and if she hadn't been proved out of her mind, she would have been buried at four lane-ends. She had Cathy’s predisposition to overweight and her hips were solid and thick under her jeans. Her tone was icy. He was manifestly exerting his mind for her, and she found herself fully disposed to justify his interest. On his third visit to the island she had surprised him, that is, she had glanced up suddenly and caught the look of the beast in his eyes. ’ Melusine’s heart leapt, and as swiftly clattered into dead stillness as the implication of the second name hit home. He meant to take her out of this room, perhaps even out of the house.
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