” She found it difficult to begin thinking, and indeed she was anything but clear what it was she had to think about. “I am so sorry to have startled you,” she said, “but I was startled myself. ’ ‘She told you!’ ‘And,’ pursued Gerald, ignoring his friend’s scornful interjection, ‘that it was not always convenient to be dressed as a young girl. The Committee of Secrecy—that English Council of Ten—were sitting, with Walpole at their head; and the most extraordinary discoveries were reported to be made. He sat down on the sill of the open window, folded his arms, and stared straight before him for a long time over the wilderness of tiles and chimney-pots into a sky that was blue and empty. She dared not say the word aloud, not even to herself. "Oh, Gemini!" she exclaimed. But in that reservation it may be she went a little beyond the converse of his view. Was there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray. Just as he reached them, the Comte de St Erme drew Valade a little apart and began to converse with him in rapid French. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
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