” “This,” Anna declared, as she sipped her wine and looked around her, “reminds me more of Paris than any place I have yet seen. Thames returned no answer. It was a society column about the richest men in the world and their lavish parties. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom he had just left. ’ ‘Well, I am glad he did not,’ intervened Lucilla, forestalling another withering comment from the captain. Could she go through with it? She must. Later, she would sew it on. He leaned forward, and looked into the eyes of the woman he loved, and it seemed to him that she sang back to him with a sudden note of something like passion breaking here and there through the gay mocking words which flowed with such effortless and seductive music from her lips. The grim mockery of it!—those South Sea loafers, taking advantage of Enschede's Christianity and imposing upon him, accepting his money and medicines and laughing behind his back! No doubt they made the name a byword and a subject for ribald jest in the waterfront bars. Manning, with a baffling smile. And now I find, when it is too late, that I might have deserved you—that I am as well born as Thames Darrell. She had made a bed for herself out of wood and furs. “Well,” he said at last slowly, “I’ll pay it. "I've won, after all.
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