“I thank you, sir.”
“You will be rejoining the 'Day-Dream' to-night. Can I send a messenger over to the yacht for you?”
“I thank you. No.”
“Sir Percy is well. He is fast asleep, and hath not asked for your ladyship. Shall I let him know that you are well?”
A nod of acquiescence from Marguerite and Chauvelin's string of queries was at an end. He marvelled at her quietude and thought that she should have been as restless as himself.
Later on in the day, and egged on by Collot d'Herbois and by his own fears, he had caused Marguerite to be removed from No. 6.
This change he heralded by another brief visit to her, and his attitude this time was one of deferential apology.
“A matter of expediency, Lady Blakeney,” he explained, “and I trust that the change will be for your comfort.”
Again the same curt nod of acquiescence on her part, and a brief:
“As you command, Monsieur!”