"I'll make myself intelligible before I've done," rejoined Wild. These were so outside her experience that she found it possible to thrust them almost out of sight by saying they would be “all right” in confident tones to herself. She appeared not to have realised the implications of her outburst, but clung a little to Gerald’s hands which had taken hers in a comforting clasp. ” Michelle looked at her more inquisitively. I think not, Annabel.