She would never forget the agony of that first meal in the great dining room. ’ ‘Lord,’ Gerald murmured, awed more by the outspokenness of his hostess than by what she had said. Such was the simple code that displayed itself in all his thoughts. Capes and her father stood up, and her father made a belated movement toward the curtain. ‘I don’t think you need do that, Melusine—if I may call you so. Even Capes had been for her merely an excitant to passionate love—a mere idol at whose feet one could enjoy imaginative wallowings. Red velvet curtains rustled under dim lights as the door shut with a heavy snap. Bulging out more in the middle than at the two extremities, it resembled an enormous cask set on its end, —a sort of Heidelberg tun on a large scale,—and this resemblance was increased by the small circular aperture—it hardly deserved to be called a door—pierced, like the bung-hole of a barrell, through the side of the structure, at some distance from the ground, and approached by a flight of wooden steps. But oh, how weary I am! I know. Now tell them why.
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