It was
really very nice of you, but to-morrow you will laugh at it as I do now. The fact that it was her trusted
friend making illicit love to her remained, in spite of all her effort, an
insignificant thing in her mind. The youth with
his hair like Russell cleared his throat and said rather irrelevantly that he knew a
man who knew Thomas Bayard Simmons, who had rioted in the Strangers’
Gallery, and then Capes, finding them all distinctly pro-Ann Veronica, if not profeminist, ventured to be perverse, and started a vein of speculation upon the
Scotchman’s idea—that there were still hopes of women evolving into
something higher. I’m off to England. Three times he uttered a phrase:
"A djinn in a blue-serge coat!"
And each time he would follow it with a chuckle—the chuckle of a soul in
damnation. In the adjacent apartment Ann Veronica found a middle-aged woman with a
tired face under the tired hat she wore, sitting at a desk opening letters while a
dusky, untidy girl of eight-or nine-and-twenty hammered industriously at a
typewriter. Two or three podgy-looking old men
with wives to match, half-a-dozen overdressed girls, and a couple of
underdressed American ones, who still wore the clothes in which they had been
tramping half over London since breakfast time. "
"What a mistake!"
"Yes. “You’re great, Lucy! I had no idea you were so great!”
John exclaimed. “Wonderful man!” said Ann Veronica, reassured, and stroking his cheek with
her finger. This was done, and Austin returned with a crest-fallen look to the table. I shouldn't talk like
that.
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