” He declared. Go in, go in, Melusine prayed, hoping desperately that he would not change his mind and take another route. At the back of the house, on a bank, rose an old-fashioned terrace-garden, full of apple-trees and other fruittrees in blossom, and lively with the delicious verdure of early spring. Was there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray. The kindly American consul-general had himself taken her to the bank, where her banknotes had been exchanged for a letter of credit, and had thoroughly advised her. Capes—the ‘Capes crave,’ they would call it in America. As silent as she had remained about who had brought her home last night. Earles recovered his spirits. The man was thick set, with a bright roving eye. The McCloskeys had only boys, two that were off in the Service and one that was full grown and had moved down South. On some insane score she fancied she had to state her case in verse. Lucy felt herself go very red in the cheeks and lowered her hand rather slowly. A rare moment of amusement lightened Melusine’s mood for a moment. She watched, puzzled, as her cavalier frowned at the newcomer, glancing from him to Melusine and back again.
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