He accepted this confession conditionally: that no young man had kissed her. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now look here! Let me think it all out!” For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for even a foothold in the world. He had set out to win her, and she had let him start. Every eye was fixed upon the prisoner. Lucy followed her. ’ ‘Only in hot blood, eh?’ grinned Gerald. He became ugly and monstrous, dunning her, threatening her, assailing her. ’ She allowed herself to be pulled to the centre of the room, but uttered in a low tone, full of suppressed anxiety, ‘How can he know? How can he know?’ ‘You mean how can he know that this is your house?’ Melusine looked up at him, distress in her eyes. ‘No, Melusine. And, lastly, there's Mr. ’ ‘Lord,’ Gerald murmured, awed more by the outspokenness of his hostess than by what she had said.
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