rejoined.
Leonora turned her bright eyes up to his face.
"When did you come aboard?" she inquired, naïvely.
"At the last moment," he replied, rather coldly.
"You were detained?"
"Yes," dryly.
A sudden light broke over De Vere's mind. He laughed provokingly.
"Miss West, would you like to know what detained him?" he inquired.
"Yes," she replied.
"He went up to Blank Street, to fetch you," laughing.
"No?"
"Yes, indeed. Ask him, if you doubt me."
She looked around at Lancaster. There was a flush on his face, a frown between his eyebrows.
"You did not, really, did you?" she asked, naïvely.
"I did," curtly.
"Don't tease him about it. He was furiously angry because you ran away and came by yourself," said De Vere. He was beginning to turn the tables on Lancaster now, and he enjoyed it immensely.
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