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Updated: May 31, 2025
"When the time comes for that, you shall find a worthier parti than poor Karslake, well-meaning though he may be. Moreover, you heard forgive me for reminding you there was not an ounce of sincerity in all his philandering for you to hold in sentimental recollection. So forget Karslake, please. It is a duty you owe your own pride and my dignity; it is, furthermore, my wish."
Well: she might as well await Karslake at the station. It would be simpler, she would be more at ease there, would breathe more freely once she turned her back on Frampton Court and all its hateful associations. Where Victor was, she could not rest.
If it put the issue to her squarely, of loyalty to Prince Victor or loyalty to Karslake, she was unaware that she had any choice of courses. When Shaik Tsin thumped the panels of her door, she crushed the note into the bosom of her négligée before answering. When one is of an age to love, it is never the parent who gets the benefit of a doubt.
I have set the account down word for word, with all the hiatuses and breaks that by nature of the extraordinary circumstances under which it was written were bound to appear in it. I have allowed it to end precisely as Karslake was forced to end it, in the middle of a sentence.
She tried to recall precisely what it was that Karslake had promised, but found her memory of a sudden singularly sluggish. In fact, her mind seemed to have lost its marvellous clarity of those first moments after tasting the wine of China. Small wonder, when one remembered the emotional strain she had experienced since early evening!
"But Nogam: in this house, regardless of the custom which may have obtained in other establishments where you have served, you will always knock before entering a room, and never enter until you obtain permission." "But if I'm sure the room is empty, sir, and get no answer ?" "Then you may enter any room but this. Never this, unless I am here or Mr. Karslake is and you get leave." "'Nk you, sir."
"Type it on plain paper, use a plain envelope, be sure that neither has a watermark, and get it off to-night without fail. Take a taxi to St. Pancras station and post it there. If you make haste you can get it in a pillar-box before the last collection." "I shan't lose a minute, sir." Karslake straightened up, folding the paper, and made for the door.
"Yes, sir?" "Where is the Princess Sofia?" "In 'er apartment, sir." "And Mr. Karslake?" "In 'is." "Then be good enough to send Shaik Tsin to me." "Yes, sir." "And, Nogam!" the servant checked in the act of turning "I shan't need you again to-night." "'Nk you, sir."
She had been quick to see the man behind the misleading little moustache. And already she was beginning to count that amusement tame which Karslake did not share. Mrs. Waring was undeniably a dear.
Do you require more excuse for my permitting you to be deceived by Victor for a few weeks, rather than wreck our plans to frustrate his, when all the while Karslake and I were near you, watching over you, learning to love you he in his fashion, I as your father and both ready at all times to die in your protection, if it had ever come to that?"
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