‘I doubt very much whether they are yours at all. It was nothing like the big church
wedding she wanted, but nothing could shame her greater
than to have a child out of wedlock. He was at length rescued from his assailants,—
rescued to perish, seven months afterwards, with every ignominy, at the very
gibbet to which he had brought his victim. ‘If you care for me at all, shoot me. She was trying to bring her problems to a head, and her
mind insisted upon being even more discursive and atmospheric than usual. Nay, for aught I know, some of them may
even now have got scent of me. That paper
must be signed, or I take my departure. She blushed prettily, and in a moment regained
command of her tongue. And now you must go back, take up your
work and think all this over. ”
A sudden sense of the gravity of this thing came home to Anna. Too late, alas, to stop the disastrous marriage. There was nothing to be got out of the man. “My father’s sisters used once to live in the old manor
house. ”
“And if you are a millionaire like Drummond,” someone remarked, “you send
round a note and ask her to come out to supper.
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