Chapter XXI HER SISTER’S SECRET “I think,” Lady Ferringhall said, “that you are talking very foolishly. He spent the evening telling her stories of Greece as she sat in front of a roaring fire. "Enough!" cried Jonathan, eagerly pocketing the memorandum. “You may call anytime. You are infatuated. She was curious to know why he had boarded a dingy train instead of hailing a cab or his own private chauffeur like the others in expensive suits were doing. “John, did those roses cost a fortune?” “Like I’m going to tell you!” “Oh, John, they were so pretty, but they must have cost an arm and a leg, and you should be saving for college. She wallowed for a time in the thought of Capes, unable to escape from his image and the idea of his presence in her life. ‘Why?’ ‘Why take me to France? Why trouble himself with me, when so easily he could leave me to this Monsieur Remenham to keep?’ To Melusine’s instant suspicion, Martha bit her lip, drew a breath, and avoided her charge’s gaze. She had grabbed! She became less and less attentive to his meditative, self-complacent fragments of talk as she told herself this. “To tell you the truth, it has seemed just lately as though we were becoming in some measure estranged. Did you break my mother's heart as you tried to break mine? I am no longer accountable to you for anything. Even in this dread moment Ruth was conscious of a pathetic interest in the scattering pencils. It won't do to knock at the door, and Jonathan Wild's house is not quite so easy of entrance as Mr.
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