” He said as Cathy took his coat and alternately
handed him back his bouquet of red roses. I could not keep away any longer. "By George!" he exclaimed. Go out there and head him off, will you? Tell him anything
you like, but don’t let him in, and don’t tell him Melusine is here. Then began expostulations, preluded by a
telegram and headed by her aunt. His perception of her personal beauty deepened and quickened with each
encounter. At this place of refuge,
situated in the heart of Wapping, near the river-side, he arrived in less than an
hour, in a complete state of exhaustion. "
"Be pacified, sweet soul," said Wood, looking meaningly at Thames; "you shall
go, and I will accompany you. ”
“And why shouldn’t you?”
“I felt that sort of thing couldn’t go on. “But
I wish,” she said, “I had some idea what I was really up to. He, next, tried to clamber up the flying buttresses and soffits of
the pier, in the hope of reaching some of the windows and other apertures with
which, as a man-of-war is studded with port-holes, the sides of the bridge were
pierced. They hissed me!”
“Beasts!” he muttered. Her brother Roddy,
who was in the motor line, came to expostulate; her sister Alice wrote. Now I am sorry to
cross you in anything you have set your heart upon, but I regret to say—”
“H’m,” he reflected, and crossed out the last four words.
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