CHAPTER TEN“What am I to do?” Lydia asked.
She had finished telling him of her anger with Gerald and her despair at making Ann see the foolishness of her actions.
“There are only two people in the house that I care about, Ann and Tessa. They are both young, both at the beginning of their lives and the surroundings in which they live are bound to contaminate and probably ruin them.
“Perhaps it is silly to care as much as I do, but I cannot help it. I cannot stand by and see Ann ruin herself with a man like the Baron or watch Tessa alternately neglected and spoilt by that fiendish mother of hers.”
Major Taylor took out his cigarette case.
“May I smoke?” he asked.
She nodded her assent and he lit his cigarette.
“I know a great deal about Baron Sébale,” he said slowly, “you have not exa
