” And while he talked and watched her as he talked, she answered, and behind her listening watched and thought about him. Sampans with fish and fruit and vegetables swarmed about, while overhead gulls wheeled and swooped and circled. In doing this, he chanced to raise his eyes and half fancied he beheld, shaded by a pillar at the extremity of the western aisle, the horrible countenance of the thief-taker. It isn’t all. I could not hear his heart beat. ’ ‘Gone off?’ repeated Melusine, her wrongs rising up to tear into her chest. Startled by the cry, as may be supposed, the attention of the whole congregation was drawn towards the quarter whence it proceeded. She gathered up the chain, revealing a locket which had lain hidden in her bosom. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. ‘Get out! Out, I say! Think I want another miserable cowardly good-for-nothing wastrel on my hands? Begone! Out of my house!’ He drove them to the door, grimly satisfied when the girl’s nerve broke. Perhaps in the beginning the women made fools of themselves over him.
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