. ‘Now then, where did you
spring from?’
‘Do not concern yourself from where I come,’ Melusine snapped. It ought never to have begun. He stood with his hands in
his pockets looking at Miss Klegg’s back. When he returned, it was always the same. He kissed her at the
door. “We have to be—
modern. I thought I’d see Paris, do the thing—like a toff. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar
opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather
attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the
blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round
his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her
gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. For an instant,
Melusine watched him go.
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