He was content to talk about himself, though in the back of his clever mind he already suspected that she was not offering any details about her life. A buxom piece, who looked, Gerald decided, as if she would be more at home in an amorous engagement in a hayloft than sitting demurely in a ballroom. Applying his ear to the keyhole, Jack listened, but could detect no sound. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. It was an odd little encounter, that left vague and dubitable impressions in her mind. It is generally deficient in the qualities it prides itself upon most. It’s no good. A check arrives in Batavia every three months.
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