“Let me see,” he said. Aware of the footman hovering, and the hackney coachman’s curious eyes looking down from his box, Gerald leaned a little towards her and spoke in a lowered tone. They ascended by a lift to one of the upper floors, passed through a long ward, and finally came to a bed in the extreme corner, round which a screen had been arranged. ‘Do not think—’ he panted, ‘that I am finished—with you, mademoiselle. That would not help her. I think a wife a needless incumbrance, and mean to die a bachelor. She felt he was going to say something more—something still more personal and intimate. ’ ‘I’m afraid you are right. Young and old were dressed in their gayest apparel; and it was evident from the smiles that lighted up every countenance, from the roguish looks of the younger swains, and the demure expression of several pretty rustic maidens, that a ceremony, which never fails to interest all classes,—a wedding,—was about to take place. ‘No, but I seen the light, sir. But a girl is soiled not only by evil but by the proximity of evil, and a reputation for rashness may do her as serious an injury as really reprehensible conduct. How fortunate that she recognises the resemblance. Then they rode off at speed. The locket contained the face of her mother—all the family album she had. He waited for hours after dusk but she never arrived.
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