She put down the sketch-books and apparatus she had brought with
her, pulled out her stool, and sat down. It’s
too valiant, Miss Stanley, too valiant altogether!”
Ann Veronica meditated. She was practically an outcast, she had not even the ghost of a
plan as to her future, and she had something less than five pounds in her pocket. ’”
“What did he say?”
“What does any one say to an invitation to dinner point-blank? One tries to
collect one’s wits. She was as lovely in the spirit as in
the flesh. “That is as you will,” she said. But the world didn’t do that. “I suppose I should let go if I had. Her fingers were
bursting through her gloves, as if to get at once into touch with Ann Veronica. She had a compartment to herself in the train from London to Morningside
Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly
have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond
measure; she sat with her knees up to her chin and her hands clasped before
them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a
lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving
out of the station, whereas she was only moving in. She
was looking anxiously at the entrance to the restaurant. ’ At a quarter past eleven I returned here with
this gentleman, Mr. You’d better not
have all the money on you; you had better open a small account in the postoffice and draw it out a fiver at a time.
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