"What is the cab for?" she asked,
sharply.
"For you and for me," Julian replied. "I am going to take you
back to your lodgings."
"I refuse to go. My place is in this house. Neither Lady Janet
nor you can get over the plain facts. All I asked was to be
confronted with her. And what did she do when she came into the
room? She fainted at the sight of me."
Reiterating her one triumphant assertion, she fixed her eyes on
Julian with a look which said plainly: Answer that if you can. In
mercy to her, Julian answered it on the spot.
"As far as I understand," he said, "you appear to take it for
granted that no innocent woma n would have fainted on first
seeing you. I have something to tell you which will alter your
opinion. On her arrival in England this lady informed my aunt
that she had met with you accidentally on the French frontier,
and that she had seen you (so far as she knew) struck dead at her
side by a shell. Remember that, and recall what happened just
now. Without a word to warn her of your restoration to life, she
finds herself suddenly face to face with you, a living woman--and
this at a time when it is easy for any one who looks at her to
see that she is in delicate health.
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