She had been obliged to wait all morning for the opportunity
to talk to Martha, who chose always to retire to her cell for the period of
recreation that preceded afternoon prayers. She stared out of the paned glass window, watching
the trees being blown bare by the gale force. Then
a third secretarial opening occurred and renewed her hopes again: a position as
amanuensis—with which some of the lighter duties of a nurse were combined—
to an infirm gentleman of means living at Twickenham, and engaged upon a
great literary research to prove that the “Faery Queen” was really a treatise upon
molecular chemistry written in a peculiar and picturesquely handled cipher. “It is against my
husband’s orders, and I am not sure that my sister will be particularly glad to see
me. But it's French manners, I suppose. “My dear,” she began, with an affectionate hand on Ann Veronica’s shoulder,
“I do SO wish you would realize how it grieves your father. It is no good. Then came the javelin-men,
walking four abreast, and lastly, a long line of constables, marching in the same
order.
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