“Dare!” she said. He still watched her and questioned her. She had remained patently unavailable to him. She had made her first fight for dignity and freedom as a grown-up and independent Person, and this was how the universe had treated her. For what could be more ironical than for Howard Spurlock to see himself grow famous under the name of Taber? The ambrosia of which he had so happily dreamt!—and this gall and wormwood! He stood up and rapped his pipe on the rail. The larger problem at hand was drugging her foster sister, Shari, into a deep sleep. “What else did Michelle say?” “She said that the guy was all broken up about it, that he had another woman on the side or something. She quickened her pace, and so did he, talking at her slightly averted ear. So she approached him with sandwiches. ‘A thing Marthe told me of,’ Melusine answered, her attention on the garments that were still lying higgledy-piggledy, just as she had left them. “I think,” he said, “that I am right. . ’ ‘Is she now? And what would you be wanting of her, may I ask?’ ‘Because she knows something that may make this fool understand that I am the mistress of—’ She broke off. Chapter XXIX MONTAGUE HILL PLAYS THE GAME The man opened his eyes and looked curiously about him. He walked unsteadily towards the door.
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