‘Is it such a terrible
prospect? I will take care of you—as long as you obey me. Because Leonardo, he made me see that I can be someone. But I shan't let him off thus. Grimly Hilary smiled to himself at the effect of Gerald’s name. "
"Nor I," returned Ireton, following his example: "and I've had some experience
too. About her, as she had gone day by
day to and from the Tredgold College, she had seen and not seen many an
incidental aspect of those sides of life about which girls are expected to know
nothing, aspects that were extraordinarily relevant to her own position and
outlook on the world, and yet by convention ineffably remote. It seems that he was a sort of
family friend of the Pellissiers, and it was the artist sister whom he was with. She
came in now with an air of reserved solicitude. What had shifted his casual interest was
the visible prospect of a party of three who were coming down the packet gangplank. "One whom you may perhaps have forgotten," replied the stranger, "but who can
never forget the kindness he experienced at your hands, or at those of your
excellent husband. “You go home and think of all this,” he said, “and talk about it to-morrow. Melusine fetched her stool and plonked it down next to her great-aunt’s chair. Throughout the afternoon, while the doctor was giving her the first lesson out of
his profound knowledge of life, her interest would break away continually,
despite her honest efforts to pin it down to the facts so patiently elucidated for
her.
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