He hated travelling second-class with her—indeed, he never did—but he also disliked travelling in the same train when his daughter was in an inferior class, because of the look of the thing. The place, in which they stood, was a small entrance-chamber, cut off, like the segment of a circle, from the main apartment, (of which it is needless to say it originally constituted a portion,) by a stout wooden partition. The vestry was perhaps the only room in the place, except her allotted curtained off portion of the dormitory chamber that served for her cell—and she could not scandalise the nuns by having a man in there, be he never so much a servant—where Melusine could be sure of privacy. The way—the way we are led on! We are taught to believe we are free in the world, to think we are queens. No matter how much you tell me, you will always keep something back. I am clear I want you. ‘You had better kill me, mademoiselle, because otherwise I shall end by strangling you. We are not altogether strangers, are we? I feel that under the circumstances I have the right to offer you my advice, and if necessary my help. Here was a little corner of the past—a tragic corner. If any of you—or all of you feel the same in six months’ time from to-day, will you come, if you care to, and see me then?” There was a brief silence. But I do hope, Vee, I do hope—this is the end of these adventures.
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