’ Gerald drew his breath in sharply as Lord Charvill took a step towards his granddaughter, thrusting out his head. Langley, I appeal to you. Larry would be up soon. Manning would on no account do, though he was tall and dark and handsome and kind, and thirty-five and adequately prosperous, and all that a husband should be. You seemed complete—without that. Never mind. The last thing that she remembered was her eyes crossing as she tried to focus upon the crunch of leaves as she lay heaving upon them, dampening them further with the outpouring of her sweat as it leaked from her clothing. There was no keeping Sheila from the truth, and it was better that anyone who lived under her roof knew it. A few feet away, across the low vases of pink and white roses, sat Annabel, more beautiful to-night perhaps than ever before in her life. “Is that you, Nigel?” she asked. He was conscious of a peculiar pleasure in sitting there and thinking of those few hours which already were becoming to assume a definite importance in his mind—a place curiously apart from those dry-as-dust images which had become the gods of his prosaic life. ‘We needn’t murder Lucia. He saw her, dripping with rosy pearls, rise out of the lagoon in the dawn light: he saw her flashing to and fro among the coco palms in the moonshine: he saw her breasting the hurricane, her body as full of grace and beauty as the Winged Victory of the Louvre. These fellows must be right,” he added thoughtfully, “and yet—there’s a mystery somewhere.
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