She would not sleep for fear of losing a moment of that sense of his proximity. How could she tell him what indeed already began to puzzle herself, why she had borrowed that money at all? The plain fact was that she had grabbed a bait. Also he is ugly. Making her couch upon a heap of hay, she sank at once into a deep and refreshing slumber. I have healed and I am still your wife!\" She looked at him desperately, his eyes illuminated by firelight. The same teardrop bust, the same long waist, the same thick legs. It was not a hard face, but it was resolute. Imagine her, putting herself to all this delay and inconvenience for a young wastrel she did not know and who, the moment he got on his feet, would doubtless pass out of her life without so much as Thank you! And it was ten to one that she would not comprehend the ingratitude. She had known that Remenham House would be deserted, for Martha—released, as she had carefully explained to her charge, by her vows to God from servitude and obedience to Nicholas Charvill, a mere mortal—had begun a correspondence with a friend of her youth, Mrs Joan Ibstock, née Pottiswick. ‘The major will tell you when to stop. "We have had a sad loss, my dear Winifred," he began,—"for I must use the privilege of an old friend, and address you by that familiar name,—we have had a sad loss in the death of your lamented parent, whose memory I shall for ever revere. She had a feeling at his departure as of an immense cavity, of something enormously gone; she could not tell whether it was infinite regret or infinite relief. What had actually beaten him was not to have known if someone had picked up his trail.
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