Wood is now in very affluent
circumstances. Even unbelieving biological
demonstrators must respect decorum; and besides, you see—you were a student. Gracious, there’s the gong. He regretted now that in his idle hours he
hadn't hunted up one against the rainy day. ‘She?’
‘Damnation!’ He saw her frown, and added at once, ‘I beg your pardon,
ma’am. ”
“Lucy Albert, sir. I
can assure you, Anna, it will take me years to get decently established. And you tell me that the reason you are doing all this is so that you can
marry an Englishman!’
Melusine giggled. I leaned over and looked at him—he
was quite still. More,’ he said, ‘but I’m told it’s the
most amusing thing in London at the present time. Are you going to have any apple-tart,
Stanley? The apple-tart’s been very good lately—very good!”
Part 7
At the end of dinner that evening Ann Veronica began: “Father!”
Her father looked at her over his glasses and spoke with grave deliberation;
“If there is anything you want to say to me,” he said, “you must say it in the
study. "It's all over," groaned Wood, "and perhaps it's as well her senses are gone.
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