[Prisoners by Mary Cholmondeley]@TWC D-Link bookPrisoners CHAPTER X 1/20
CHAPTER X. La vie est un instrument dont on commence toujours par jouer faux. Wentworth and Fay did not follow Colonel Bellairs and Magdalen back to the house.
When they reached the end of the avenue they turned back silently by mutual consent, and retraced their steps down it. Presently they reached the trunk of the tree where Fay had been sitting with Magdalen. Fay sank down upon it once more, white and exhausted.
He sat down at a little distance from her. "How is Michael ?" she said at last, twisting her ungloved hands together. "I came to tell you about him; I only got back last night.
I knew you would wish to hear." "How is he ?" "He has been ill.
He has had double pneumonia.
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