She met his eye for a moment in curious surprise. Something about the girl had suggested an idea. ” She found it difficult to begin thinking, and indeed she was anything but clear what it was she had to think about. For a moment she too had started and faltered in her exit from the room. 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. One reason, perhaps, of his success in this case might be, that having arrested his associate in the dark transaction, Sir Rowland Trenchard, on a charge of high treason, he was favoured by Walpole, who found his account in retaining such an agent. ’ ‘Well, sir? Who is “she”? Not my granddaughter, I take it. ’ ‘I like that,’ Gerald protested. “Not at all. “You remind me of the story which they tell against us over here, you know—of the Englishman who refused to be saved from drowning because he was unacquainted with his rescuer.
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