1. Chapter XXIV A CASE FOR THE POLICE After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. " "But what, in God's name, possessed you? You have already wrecked your own life and now you've wrecked hers. Or had you not noticed?’ He sneered. ’ It was immediately evident that Lucilla Froxfield was not as silly as Melusine had thought, for the face of her captain immediately changed and he took her hands, a look on his face that caused Melusine an instant pang. The echoes of his hard, unpleasant laugh reached Anna on her way upstairs. Unless—’ Something clicked in his mind and he stared at his friend without seeing him. She would be surrendering to all her impulses—particularly the good impulses—many of which society had condemned long since because they entailed too much trouble. "Not as I loved mine. A neighbor stopped by as the day wore on, causing her to duck and cower as he rang the doorbell over and over. Pull yourself together, Annabel! I must have the truth. ‘Do you at least know how he came to be in a position to cheat Miss Charvill, and to pass off his wife in her place?’ ‘In her place?’ There was no mistaking the boy’s ignorance of this part of the tale. Were I to let you go, you'd say I feared you. And pouring the contents of a small powderflask into a bumper of brandy, he tendered him the mixture. Then a handkerchief was thrown over the cage, to prevent the bird from singing; it was her favourite canary.
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