She wondered occasionally
why his mind needed so much distraction. The tourist season would soon be at ebb,
and it would be late in September before the tide returned. ‘Where are you taking me?’ she asked, assuming a fearful accent. The walls were of immense
thickness; the small windows double-grated and unglazed; the fire-place was
without a grate; and a barrack-bed, divided into two compartments, occupied one
corner. He did not want Ruth to see his own stricken
countenance; nor did he care to see hers, ravaged by tears. She never questioned the motives of the characters;
she had neither the ability nor the conceit for that; but she could and often did
correct his lapses in colour. I swore to hang you two years ago, but I deferred my purpose. Ann Veronica’s desire to laugh unrestrainedly was checked by the tremendous
earnestness of his expression. Perhaps once it had desired some other human being intolerably. “By Jove!” she said, standing up at last, “that about finishes it, Ann
Veronica!”
CHAPTER THE TENTH
THE SUFFRAGETTES
Part 1
“There is only one way out of all this,” said Ann Veronica, sitting up in her
little bed in the darkness and biting at her nails. Doctor Ralph came
in to tea and put his arm round Alice and kissed her, and Alice called him
“Squiggles,” and stood in the shelter of his arms for a moment with an
expression of satisfied proprietorship. ‘I thank you.
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