He was always tenderly courteous; he answered her ordinary questions readily and her extraordinary ones patiently; he always rose when she entered or left the room. She was certain he would hear, sleeping in the nearby castle. Out of the beaten track, far from the trails of men! He relaxed. He was unusually absurd and ready, and all the time it seemed to Ann Veronica as a delightful possibility, as a thing not indeed to be entertained seriously, but to be half furtively felt, that he was being so agreeable because she had come back again. Marriage!—and no woman by to tell the child what it was! The shocks and disillusions she would have to meet unsuspectingly—and bitterly. That was one of the compensations for having consigned himself to this part of the world. Let’s face it, she hates Missy’s guts. We shall become a prey to the Philistines, and must turn honest in self-defence. Bit priggish, isn’t it? And if he only knew it—so absurd. Sometimes ships would stop three or four days for water and repairs; and the men would carouse in the back room at Morgan's. ‘You mean that there is a rival Melusine to the one he has heard about? He does not. To-night there seemed to be a new brilliancy in her eyes, a deeper quality in her tone.
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