‘And it may interest you to know, mademoiselle, that the first thing Gerald must needs do on reaching town is to rush off to that convent of yours to make sure you were safe. ‘Don’t be too sure,’ responded Major Gerald Alderley on a dry note. “I have come for an explanation,” she said. Vitally, she had the letter that proved her identity as a Charvill: the one her father had written to the Abbess when he sent her to the convent. Poor Ben was not so fortunate. Your uncle—our uncle is with him. She shrugged her shoulders. “But why,” he said in the gasping voice of one subduing an agony, and looked at her from under a pain-wrinkled brow, “why did you not tell me this before?” “I didn’t know—I thought I might be able to control myself. Her words, as she said them, seemed to her to mean nothing, and there was so much that struggled for expression. His shirt also was unbuttoned, and disclosed a neck like that of an ox, and a chest which might have served as a model for a Hercules. They went on talking in the train—it seemed to her father a slight want of deference to him—and he listened and pretended to read the Times. “Friendships that are all very well between school-girls don’t always go on into later life. ‘Only perhaps I can more readily do so if you will put down that pistol.
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