Chapter 28
Mordryn spent a most unrestful day; he found it very difficult to settle to anything. He felt it wiser whenever his thoughts turned to Katherine Bush, immediately to picture Bindon's Green and the auctioneer father and butcher grandfather!-they acted as a kind of antidote to the very powerful intoxicant which was flooding his veins. And Katherine sat typing mechanically her morning's work, but some third sense beyond eye and hand was busy with agitating thoughts. No, she could play no further game with the Duke, fate had beaten her. It would be no acting. She knew that she was just a woman, after all, and he was a man, and the Dukedom had gone into shadowland. He possessed everything that Algy had lacked, there would be no blank half-hours when passion was lulled, with him. His perfectly
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