The rainstorm, short-lived, began to subside. “A joke! Sir John, if you had presented yourself here an hour ago we should have greeted you in pained silence. Jack looked towards the door. ’ Melusine fought down the raw emotion that threatened to overwhelm her and drew a steadying breath. She never had been much of a looker, but she had stopped worrying about such things long ago. But although startled and clearly afraid, there was no self-consciousness in her gaze and she was standing her ground. This is retribution. ‘Do you think because you’ve managed to pull a gun on me—not to mention several daggers and a vicious little knife— that you can get away with it against a man who means business?’ ‘Do you think that the trigger I would not have pulled, or stuck the dagger into you, if you had not been as you are?’ she countered. Women are hypocrites to the last—true only to themselves. She could tell that he was furious in that instant. “After all,” she said, “if this person will not be reasonable, I am afraid——” It was enough. It was a second reminder that against her claim to go free and untrammelled there was a case to be made, that after all it was true that a girl does not go alone in the world unchallenged, nor ever has gone freely alone in the world, that evil walks abroad and dangers, and petty insults more irritating than dangers, lurk. The rest she meant to keep for her immediate necessities.
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