Then Hallam shut the door and said, “I would not have her distressed, but I believe we both know what we are about here.” “It is hardly gentlemanly to beat an unarmed man who is tied to a chair,” said Severin. “I am a provincial player, Mr. Devere, just like Jenny. If she cannot expect to be treated like a lady by a British major general, then why should I be held to the standards of a gentleman when I entertain one of that man’s officers? Particularly one who thought nothing of pimping her to an untalented hack whose scribbling saw the light of day only because he married the daughter of a lord.” “I got Jenny off the Boyne unmolested.” Hallam was no fool. He knew Devere’s hands were unbound. Warily he circled Devere’s chair. “She did not look unmolested when she arrived at John Street.” “That is Frances Leighton’s fault. She is the one who told the Widow that I was in New York and set Angela Ferrers’ assassins on us.”
