” He was
slightly tipsy. That was what she was trying to make him understand. “Why did you do it?” her aunt urged. “I do wish
you and your father could come to some agreement. Now
I’d like the rest of your story. It came to Ann Veronica that life was wonderful beyond measure. He
leaned towards her, laid his hand tenderly upon hers. This business of love is the supreme affair in life, it is the woman’s one
event and crisis that makes up for all her other restrictions, and I cower—as we
all cower—with a blushing and paralyzed mind until it overtakes me!. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so
—“will say! What are we to tell people?
“Besides, what am I to tell your father?”
At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to
return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an
enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her
flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent
consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it
became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the
position of things if she returned. He was
manifestly exerting his mind for her, and she found herself fully disposed to
justify his interest. ”
Anna’s demeanour was still imperturbable, her marble pallor untinged by the
slightest flush of colour.
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