She slid her cheek down the tweed sleeve of his coat. How would it serve Nicholas to keep the truth from his daughter? A tiny thread of disquiet troubled him. ’ ‘Then why,’ demanded Melusine, ‘did you do it?’ Gerald closed his eyes. She was clad in fresh linen, but still wore the riding-habit she had appropriated, having sponged out the spots of blood late last night and left it to dry in the kitchens. ‘Who’d believe me? And I’d have to tell my part in it all, too. Casting a hasty glance, as he was about to turn an angle of the wall, at the great gates and upper windows of the prison, and perceiving no symptoms of pursuit, Jack proceeded towards the hovel at a very deliberate pace, carefully assisting his female companion over every obstacle in the road, and bearing her in his arms when, as was more than once the case, she sank from fright and exhaustion. His attitude toward her was purely intellectual, free of any sentimentality, utterly selfish.
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