‘Where was I? Oh yes. ’ With an air of real interest, he asked, ‘I suppose you did not dig a tunnel or fly in by balloon?’ The lady gazed at him blankly. Melusine choked on a laugh, and Gerald at once seized the initiative, speaking in a tone deliberately soothing. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. Nay, for aught I know, some of them may even now have got scent of me. He's rewriting Poe and De Maupassant; and that stuff was good only when Poe and De Maupassant wrote it. One wants helpers and protectors—and clean water. The theme was a masquerade.
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