8/15 The very minor circumstance of their landlady being in the room dammed a flood. The sum-total was a symbol of days that were a fiery wheel. If the chariot did not pass:--Lord Ormont had willed it. A man could not be said to swerve in his duty when acting to fulfil the master's orders, and Mrs.Pagnell was proved a hoodwinked duenna, and Morsfield was in the air. The breathing Aminta had now a common purse with her first lover. |