A snarl contorted his features, and he marched up to it, laying his pistol down on the marquetry table so that his hands were free to grab the picture off the wall. ‘Dreadfully untidy, is it not? Can’t abide bare rooms. I have made her an honourable proposal of marriage, in compliance with the request of her lamented parent, whose memory—" "Dare to utter that falsehood in my hearing again, scoundrel," interrupted Thames fiercely, "and I will put it out of your power to repeat the offence. ‘Who the devil is Leonardo?’ demanded Roding impatiently, asking the question that had leapt into the major’s mind. ’ ‘Indeed, I’m beginning to think so,’ he said ruefully. A little Madeira seemed to recover her enough to resume the discussion. But the mere recognition of his son’s signature was enough to stoke the fires of his long-held rage. ’ ‘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. Her teachers and mistresses had done their best to stamp her mind with an ineradicable persuasion that it was tremendously important, and on no account to be thought about. Each morning his inquiry was properly answered: the patient was steadily improving, but none could say when he would be strong enough to proceed upon his journey.
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