’ Chapter Ten ‘I am come on a mission of some delicacy, ma’am,’ Gerald said calmly to the old lady. I am ready to wait for you, to wait your pleasure, to give all my life to winning it. In your heart you know quite well that all that you have said is useless. I spent my fair share of time in the closet. “I can survive on my own. Even the light was different in Athens, soft and golden, sweet as the morning dew blessed by Athena herself. ’ Gerald moved to the long sofa, dusted it with elaborate care with one of its cushions, and with a gesture invited her to sit down. Again the chalky pallor spread even to her lips, her eyes became lit with the old terror. ‘There were the Comte and Comtesse de St Erme. There was first the Avenue, which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an undeveloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick villas on either side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the postoffice, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. Then it came to her with a shock, as an extraordinary oversight, that she could never tell Manning about Ramage—never.
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