“I want to make love for the first time tonight. Sydney and Brendon vied with one another in their efforts to engage Anna in conversation, and Miss Ellicot, during the momentary lull, deemed it a favourable opportunity to recommence siege operations. It was she—— Anna’s nerves were not easily shaken, but she found herself suddenly clutching at the table for support. Sheppard made an effort to speak, but her voice was choked by emotion. ’ ‘She again?’ enquired his hostess, her delicate brows rising ‘I beg your pardon, ma’am. In the grate were some charred fragments of a marriage certificate. ’ ‘Because I have never heard anything so ridiculous,’ Gerald announced. Strange, I could never learn her history. You are—or rather you were——” he corrected himself with an unpleasant little laugh, “Miss Pellissier, eh?” A little sensation followed upon his words. Did he intend to kill her now, this instant? Or had she a moment or two to try to save herself? Recalling Leonardo’s dictum, she did not struggle, for that would only tighten the trap about her, and perhaps even spring it. He had not addressed to her even the most ordinary courtesy of fellow travellers; she doubted that he was even aware of her existence. The road which wound by Westbourne Green, gave him a full view of the hill of Hampstead with its church, its crest of houses, and its villas peeping from out the trees.
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