"
Lady O'Moy listened in growing amazement. Also she was a little
shocked. It seemed to her almost indecent that a young girl should
know so much about politics - so much of which she herself, a married
woman, and the wife of the adjutant-general, was completely in
ignorance.
"Save us, child!" she ejaculated. "You are so extraordinarily
informed."
"I have talked to Captain Tremayne," said Sylvia. "He has explained
all this."
"Extraordinary conversation for a young man to hold with a young
girl," pronounced her ladyship. "Terence never talked of such
things to me."
"Terence was too busy making love to you," said Sylvia, and there
was the least suspicion of regret in her almost boyish voice.
"That may account for it," her ladyship confessed, and fell for a
moment into consideration of that delicious and rather amusing past,
when O'Moy's ferocious hesitancy and flaming jealousy had delighted
her with the full perception of her beauty's power. With a rush,
however, the present forced itself back upon her notice. "But I
still don't see why Count Samoval should have offered me assistance
if he did not intend to grant it when the time came."
Sylvia explained that it was from the Portuguese Government that
the demand for justice upon the violator of the nunnery at Tavora
emanated, and that Samoval's offer might be calculated to obtain him
information of Butler's whereabouts when they became known, so that
he might surrender him to the Government.
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