Perhaps an hour passed before she laid aside the book. Something drew you. Wood, who had been absent on business during the greater part of the day, returned (perhaps not altogether undesignedly) at an earlier hour than was expected, to his dwelling in Wych Street, Drury Lane; and was about to enter his workshop, when, not hearing any sound of labour issue from within, he began to suspect that an apprentice, of whose habits of industry he entertained some doubt, was neglecting his employment. “The smallest will do for me quite well. Teenage boys never change, she thought to herself. Spurlock knew exactly what he was doing, however: speculative mischief, to see how she would act. But it was extraordinary what seemingly irrelevant things could restore her to the thought of Capes again. Lucy had been ignoring her, not purposefully, but noticeably. ‘If it is that your men there are going to arrest us, then why do they not do so?’ ‘Left to myself, I’d let them,’ he replied grimly. Half a day had turned the corner of the hours; and Ah Cum admitted that this girl puzzled him. As she went on, the story began to sound more and more like a recitation. What was the name on those marriage lines you showed me?’ ‘M—Melusine,’ stammered the woman, her countenance yet registering shock. Remote little Ann Veronica! She would never know the heart of that child again! That child had loved fairy princes with velvet suits and golden locks, and she was in love with a real man named Capes, with little gleams of gold on his cheek and a pleasant voice and firm and shapely hands. It was noon when the caravan reached the tower of the water-clock.
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