Had it come already?
Chapter XXVII
JOHN FERRINGHAM, GENTLEMAN
“Confess, my dear husband,” Annabel said lightly, “that you are bewildered. You do not know him. Dunstable’s contributions to the conversation were entirely in the form of
nods; whenever Alderman Dunstable praised or blamed she nodded twice or
thrice, according to the requirements of his emphasis. “Aunt!” she said, “I can’t—”
Then she caught a wild appeal in her aunt’s blue eye, halted, and the door
clicked upon them. ‘Can you not open it?’ she cried. "I was coming to give you intelligence of a comical trick played by this
rascal, when I find him here—the last place, I own, where I should have
expected to find him. "Often. Pausing with the intention of turning back,
he glanced in the direction of the village church, the tower of which could just be
seen through the trees. ”
“And if you are a millionaire like Drummond,” someone remarked, “you send
round a note and ask her to come out to supper. With thinly veiled glee, Michelle described a rumor she
had heard about John at a recent party. Hardened as he may be, that would
touch him. “Michelle, I think
that you are the victim of an extremely overactive
imagination. But, being pushed
forward by his subordinate officer, he was compelled to make a stand. The door was opened for her
by a weary-looking youth in a striped jacket several sizes too large for him. "
"It's all up," muttered Thames.
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