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Standing here at his side with all her old elusive charm out of his reach! "What did you mean" she was speaking to him again "by telling Penny that you expected to see me soon before she would?" "Ah, that's my news. Of course, when I wrote, I thought you were still down in Cornwall, with the Trenbys. I'd no idea you were coming up to town just now." "I'm up unexpectedly," murmured Nan. "Well?
The Trenbys' circle of friends interested her not at all. The men mostly of the sturdy, sporting type, bored her ineffably, and she found the women, with their perpetual local gossip and discussion of domestic difficulties, dull and uninspiring. Of the McBains, unfortunately, she saw very little, owing to the distance, between the Hall and Trevarthen Wood.
Adding: "I've frightened you, I suppose?" She bent her head. "Well" sulkily "it was your own fault. You roused the wild beast in me." Then, with a queer, half-shamed laugh, he added: "There's Spanish blood in the Trenbys, you know as there is in many of the Cornish folk." Nan supposed this avowal was intended as an apology, or at least as an explanation of sorts.
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