3/12 How long is that? Do you think a divorce is really necessary ?" Gregory Vigil answered: "I'm afraid it is." Mrs.Pendyce met her cousin's gaze serenely; if anything, her brows were uplifted more than usual; but, as at the stirring of secret trouble, her fingers began to twine and twist. Before her rose a vision of George and Mrs.Bellew side by side. It was a vague maternal feeling, an instinctive fear. She stilled her fingers, let her eyelids droop, and said: "Of course, dear Grig, if I can help you in any way--Horace does so dislike anything to do with the papers." Gregory Vigil drew in his breath. |