It’s gone. She did not understand the note of hostility to men that
ran through it all, the bitter vindictiveness that lit Miss Miniver’s cheeks and
eyes, the sense of some at last insupportable wrong slowly accumulated. ’
‘That old fool? Why my brother kept him on I shall never know. “Of course he may merely have been telling her who we were, but I
think it improbable. His attention was focused on Melusine’s transfixed stare and he forgot to say any
of the things he had planned to say. Of his own certain knowledge he could tell
them that. Pure luck! If the boy had grown a moustache or a beard, a needle in the haystack
would have been soft work. ‘But I have been
perfectly honest about that. People always rejoice at the
misfortunes of others—never at their own! The droll dogs! how they must have
enjoyed it!—ha! ha!"
"I dare say they did. Blueskin might have butchered you and your brat before I'd have lifted a finger
to prevent him, if it hadn't suited my purposes to do so, and he hadn't incurred
my displeasure. To an unthinking mind the episode would be ordinary, trivial; but to the doctor,
who had had plenty of time to think during his sojourn in China, it was basic of
the child's unhappiness. ‘Now, madame, tell me all about your life in France. Anna, who had sung
the first verse of her song, looked around the house, a little surprised at the
absence of the applause which had never yet failed her.
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