"I was coming to give you intelligence of a comical trick played by this rascal, when I find him here—the last place, I own, where I should have expected to find him. He lunched in the Legal Club in Chancery Lane, and met Ogilvy. Two persons possessing a more comfortable stock of assurance could not be readily found. You have been to me like a mother, not only a wetnurse. It was a bright and beautiful day: so bright, so beautiful, that even her sad heart was cheered by it. Do you think a jeune demoiselle may possess more weapons than this?’ ‘Most young ladies would not be in possession of any weapons,’ Gerald said tartly. Leaning upon a gate he looked down into the valley. She felt this was the sensible way out of this oddly sinister situation. There is no other way. She stole the opportunity to peer at his departing figure from the closed curtains of the front room window, his shoulders slumped forward, his posture and his ego slightly deflated. Then suddenly, in front of all those windows, he folded her in his arms and pressed her to him, and kissed her unresisting face. ” “Why do you think so?” she asked. This was not the sort of confession which he had been expecting. To recreate the era, I deliberately tried to avoid creating a thinly disguised bodice ripper where an “empowered” woman mouthed off to prospective suitors in jerkins and tights, in other words, a typical romance novel.
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