Then she begins to
have visions of what is forbidden to all mortals:
knowledge of the future. ‘You’re either mad, or in love. Holcroft, we may have
been mistaken. I
wonder whether you would mind, Lady Ferringhall,” he went on, with a sudden
glance at her, “if I tell you that you yourself remind me a great deal more of what
she was like then, except of course that your complexion and colouring are
altogether different. That shining
slope of snow, and how we talked of death! We might have died! Even when we
are old, when we are rich as we may be, we won’t forget the tune when we cared
nothing for anything but the joy of one another, when we risked everything for
one another, when all the wrappings and coverings seemed to have fallen from
life and left it light and fire. She stood up before him, smiling faintly. “It was your own fault,” she exclaimed. Melusine saw fire in his eyes and a streak of heat rushed through her to match it. She
jumped up at once, caught up a leather clutch containing notebooks, a fat textbook, and a chocolate-and-yellow-covered pamphlet, and leaped neatly from the
carriage, only to discover that the train was slowing down and that she had to
traverse the full length of the platform past it again as the result of her
precipitation. The library was on the ground floor, Melusine recalled from the previous visit,
for she had searched through a desk in a room filled with bookshelves of leatherbound volumes. ”
“I wanted to, John. Whatever may happen to-morrow I shall be none the better for anticipating its
miseries to-day.
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