Chapter XXI HER SISTER’S SECRET “I think,” Lady Ferringhall said, “that you are talking very foolishly. Of course, it was ridiculous, this inclination to assist the fugitive, based as it was upon an intangible university idea. There's something human about you now. But with returning breath came returning vociferations; and the carpenter, with a faint hope of lessening the clamour by change of scene, took up his lantern, opened the door, and walked out. Yet I think that he will do it. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. ’ ‘Consider me warned,’ said Gerald solemnly. He left the room, presumably to sleep elsewhere, but the only other room with a fire was the servant’s quarters. She sat very still, and his eyes rested on that ornament for a moment, and then travelled slowly to her wrist and the soft lines of her forearm. Wild's intention, doubtless, was to use you as far as he found necessary, and then to sell you. “To tell you the truth though, I am quite a stranger in London, and it occurred to me that Mr. ’ Even as they watched, a shadow passed across one of the apertures.
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