‘I agree with you. ’ Gerald could not suppress a grin. If I were to marry you now I should feel a dependent being all my life—a sort of parasitical creature without blood or muscle. It arises, I think, from an over developed sense of humour. ‘Truth is, it’s Gerald who’s put me in the devil’s own temper, ma’am. Gerald, meanwhile, was off hunting up these lawyers, together with your son, ma’am—’ turning to Mrs Sindlesham ‘—and you know the outcome of that. ’ Arrested, Melusine eyed her with interest. The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements; —the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and, whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow. ’ Not all the arguments Martha advanced, and they were many and varied, had the power to move Melusine. ’ She was seized by two strong hands and drawn close. ’ ‘I do not care any more about the portrait,’ Melusine said, opening the door to the attic corridor that gave off onto the row of little rooms that served as private cells for the senior nuns.
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