The horror of those few minutes was still with her. Pale, flesh-colored light filtered in through the corners of the house. He reappeared in street clothes, his cropped hair not even damp from the shower, fresh-faced and sweetsmelling. ’ ‘I fetched them with my clothes when the son of madame took me to see Marthe,’ Melusine admitted. The man had favoured him with a brief nod, but the girl had gone so far as to offer a tiny smile, and a look under her lashes with which not even Gerald, for all his scant interest in female society, could fail to be familiar. America, the land of rosy apples and snowstorms, beckoned, and she wanted to fly thitherward. So soft. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words that express it—a very great lark indeed.
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