When she got home to her lodgings that evening she reflected with something like surprise upon her half-day’s employment, and decided that it showed nothing more nor less than that Capes was a really very interesting person indeed. Father-worshipping sons are abnormal— and they’re no good. Sheppard, as I told you, is in Bedlam, an incurable maniac; while her son is in the New Prison, whence he will only be removed to Newgate and Tyburn. He saw now that it was merely a boy. Yet an indiscriminating, wrong-headed world gave such fellows all sorts of distinctions. One wants helpers and protectors—and clean water. ‘But you know everything now,’ protested Hilary, keeping pace as Gerald took the stairs two at a time. ‘What could either of us have done?’ To Gerald’s acute consternation, Melusine’s lip trembled suddenly, and her eyes filled. “I will not rob you of your coffee, most dutiful of sisters!” she exclaimed. She leaned back as he climbed on top of her and kissed her mouth again. The latter looked very pale, either from the effect of his wound, which was not yet entirely healed, or from suppressed emotion,—partly, perhaps, from both causes,—and wore his left arm in a sling.
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