” Lucy appeared and appraised him briefly, nonchalantly. ‘Do you at least know how he came to be in a position to cheat Miss Charvill, and to pass off his wife in her place?’ ‘In her place?’ There was no mistaking the boy’s ignorance of this part of the tale. ‘I’m taking you to Gerald, my girl. As this had been Mrs. ‘One does not blow off the head of a man with whom one is in love, en effet. Wood, who had been absent on business during the greater part of the day, returned (perhaps not altogether undesignedly) at an earlier hour than was expected, to his dwelling in Wych Street, Drury Lane; and was about to enter his workshop, when, not hearing any sound of labour issue from within, he began to suspect that an apprentice, of whose habits of industry he entertained some doubt, was neglecting his employment. ’ Gerald came into the room as he spoke, his eyes on the stormclouds rapidly gathering in Melusine’s face. ’ ‘Miss Melusine Charvill,’ he repeated, ‘is a convent-bred genteel girl, who is in all probability the granddaughter of General Lord Charvill. But—it’s one of the things I’ve just been thinking over. How long do you think it will take him to put two and two together?’ ‘Eh bien, then if he will try to harm me, I will kill him. Shari draped herself lazily upon her unmade bed. Something he saw there made him feel for a moment ashamed. ‘But she will not shoot you,’ Melusine told him flatly.
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