She had slept badly at first in a
long chair next to the fire waiting for him to return, but
caught on after that. He was no match for
Brendon. “I was surprised, I admit,” he said. . It's almost
incredible. ”
“I don’t mind knowing,” said Ann Veronica. "
"Come along, then. Clement's church. Ann Veronica was one of the
few young people—and one must have young people just as one must have
flowers—one could ask to a little gathering without the risk of a painful discord. Only one thing emerged with
any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was
saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is
unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a
trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage
was an experience to be strenuously evaded. Do you know, Annabel, that you are my wife. And this was an adventure of
which he had dreamed from boyhood: aboard a windjammer on the South Seas. The room seemed a vacuum. Once inside, he looked around, worried that
his parents would suddenly cancel their trip and return
home. He sat down on the sill of the open window, folded his arms,
and stared straight before him for a long time over the wilderness of tiles and
chimney-pots into a sky that was blue and empty.
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