Alpha Book

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see I am desperately put to it or I would never have ventured to trouble
you--"
"I see," she said, looking at him out of eyes bright with
disappointment.
"Could you help us, then?" he asked pleasantly.
"Help _us_, Captain Selwyn? Who is the 'us,' please?"
"Why, Gerald and me--and his family," he added, meeting her eyes. The
eyes began to dance with malice.
"His family," repeated Rosamund; "that is to say, his sister, Miss
Erroll. His family, I believe, ends there; does it not?"
"Yes, Mrs. Fane."
"I see. . . . Miss Erroll is naturally worried over him. But I wonder
why she did not come to me herself instead of sending you as her errant
ambassador?"
"Miss Erroll did not send me," he said, flushing up. And, looking
steadily into the smiling doll's face confronting him, he knew again
that he had failed.
"I am not inclined to be very much flattered after all," said Rosamund.
"You should have come on your own errand, Captain Selwyn, if you
expected a woman to listen to you.


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