She put out her hands to avoid his embrace. The Ragged Edge. She possessed what he affected to despise, but secretly worshipped—the innate charm of breeding. Then he got up and left her. She could not analyse what was stirring in her: the thought of losing the doll, the dog, and the cat. ‘You dare to come to me? What do you wish of me? Why have you come? I do not want you!’ She swept round on Gerald abruptly and he braced for the onslaught. “Idiotic, isn’t it?” “Absolutely,” she agreed coldly. “You cannot say that you did not expect me,” he answered. It was, Ann Veronica felt, as a sip or so of that remarkable blend warmed her blood, just the sort of thing that her aunt would not approve, to be lunching thus, tete-a-tete with a man; and yet at the same time it was a perfectly innocent as well as agreeable proceeding. ’ ‘I have found Mary Remenham’s daughter,’ he repeated. I'll cable to-night, and in a few days we'll have some news. It consisted of a full-dress coat of brown flowered velvet, laced with silver; a waistcoat of white satin, likewise richly embroidered; shoes with red heels, and large diamond buckles; pearlcoloured silk stockings with gold clocks; a muslin cravat, or steen-kirk, as it was termed, edged with the fine point lace; ruffles of the same material, and so ample as almost to hide the tips of his fingers; and a silver-hilted sword. Either it was an unfortunate recovery of a trail, or he had followed her from Mayfair. ‘Beg pardon, miss, but I’m told as how—’ She broke off, her eyes widening, her jaw dropping open.
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