” She knelt upon the floor of her cell and clasped her hands, and remained for a long time in silence. Nothing but the constraint of social usage now linked him to her. Nevertheless it was overwhelming. ’ ‘Are you off your head? Think I don’t know you’re up to some mischief or other?’ Melusine feigned innocence. ’ ‘Melusine!’ came sharply from the doorway. His hand shook so violently that he dropped the handkerchief; and he let it lie on the floor because he dared not stoop. Melusine made no reply. Spurling, hastening to the rescue. ‘I kissed you once, didn’t I?’ Her pulses jumped and she stared. “After all, why should he be surprised?” she remarked. Ann Veronica brought her luggage in a cab from the hotel; she tipped the hotel porter sixpence and overpaid the cabman eighteenpence, unpacked some of her books and possessions, and so made the room a little homelike, and then sat down in a by no means uncomfortable arm-chair before the fire. The ripple of the water against the boat, as its keel cleaves through the stream—the darkling current hurrying by—the indistinctly-seen craft, of all forms and all sizes, hovering around, and making their way in ghostlike silence, or warning each other of their approach by cries, that, heard from afar, have something doleful in their note—the solemn shadows cast by the bridges—the deeper gloom of the echoing arches—the lights glimmering from the banks—the red reflection thrown upon the waves by a fire kindled on some stationary barge—the tall and fantastic shapes of the houses, as discerned through the obscurity;—these, and other sights and sounds of the same character, give a sombre colour to the thoughts of one who may choose to indulge in meditation at such a time and in such a place. "Why not?" "I'll tell you," cried a deep voice from the back of the bed.
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