11/22 'Then we're both under ban of the Law. Good-night.' And she flitted through the French window without giving him her hand. And the horses were whinnying and answering each other down by the lagoon as though there were strangers about. Lady Bridget, lying awake and watching through her uncurtained windows the descent of the Southern Cross towards the horizon, and the westward travelling of a moon just out of its first quarter, could hear the men's voices on the veranda of the Old Humpey--that of Ninnis and the Police Inspector; Maule seemed to have retired to his own room. |