Chapter Eight For an instant in the silence that followed, shocked into immobility, Melusine stared in horror at the body lying there so still. She worried for Cathy, working double shifts at the nearby family restaurant to help make ends meet. ‘Jacques!’ Melusine dropped to her haunches beside his inert form, feeling for the wound. “There is no doubt whatever about that. He drove her home that night, kissing her again and again at stoplights. But for a long time, anyhow, we lovers have to be as if we were no more than friends. A live man. And behind— there was Paris, memories of amazing things, memories which made his cheeks burn and his heart beat quickly as he sat there waiting for her. ‘You do not believe me?’ ‘I do not. Ye gods! what a wilderness it is! Every one trying to get the better of every one, every one regardless of every one—it’s one of those days when every one bumps against you—every one pouring coal smoke into the air and making confusion worse confounded, motor omnibuses clattering and smelling, a horse down in the Tottenham Court Road, an old woman at the corner coughing dreadfully—all the painful sights of a great city, and here you come into it to take your chances. A cool gray light illuminated small portions of the stone floor. “Was that before or after you became a vampire?” Michelle questioned her casually, as if it were an interview. The poor wretch, driven by desperation to the commission of a crime which her soul abhors, is no more beyond the hope of reformation than she is without the pale of mercy. Winny, my love, come with me.
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