[Jerry by Jean Webster]@TWC D-Link bookJerry CHAPTER XVIII 27/30
'Father, you knew ?' 'Long before you did, my dear.' There was a suggestion of triumph in Mr. Wilder's tone. 'Jerry, you told.' There was reproach, scorn, indignation in hers. Jerry spread out his hands in a gesture of repudiation. 'What could I do? He asked my name the day we climbed Monte Maggiore; naturally, I couldn't tell him a lie.' 'Then we haven't fooled anybody.
How unromantic!' 'Oh, yes,' said Jerry, 'we've fooled lots of people.
Gustavo doesn't understand, and Giuseppe, you noticed, looked rather dazed.
Then there's Lieutenant Carlo di Ferara----' 'Oh!' said Constance, her face suddenly blank. 'You can explain to him now,' said her father, peering through the trees. A commotion had suddenly arisen on the terrace--the rumble of wheels, the confused mingling of voices.
Constance and Jerry looked too.
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