But you have looked after me very well, and we will not allow this Gérard, who makes me all the time excessively angry, you understand, to make trouble between us. ’ ‘But where then is Gosse?’ demanded Melusine. What do you think, Annabel?” “I don’t think they would,” she admitted. Yours?" The stranger hesitated. Then she put more coal on, piled it over the ashes, and stood once more upright. He thanked God for this talent of his.