And yet—such is the buoyancy of youth—within a fortnight he began his first
novel, pretending to himself that it was on Ruth's account. ”
From that she opened out into a long, confused emphatic discourse on the
position of women, full of wonderful statements, while Constance worked at her
stencilling and Ann Veronica and Hetty listened, and Teddy contributed
sympathetic noises and consumed cheap cigarettes. Her name was Rhea. ’
‘Hadn’t the wit, you mean. "
"I'm sorry I mentioned it at all, since it distresses you," returned Winifred; "but,
as I knew my father intended to propose to you, if poor Jack should be respited
—"
"If he should be respited?" repeated Mrs. Advancing towards him, he
made him a formal salutation, which was coldly returned. Stanley,
putting his hands on the table in the manner rather of a barrister than a solicitor,
and regarding her balefully through his glasses with quite undisguised animosity,
asked, “And may I presume to inquire, then, what you mean to do?—how do
you propose to live?”
“I shall live,” sobbed Ann Veronica. ’
‘As far as I know it, ma’am. All the king's horses and all the king's men could not undo what
was done; nor kill the strange exquisite flower that had grown up in his own
lonely heart. ‘Scream and you are dead,’ he snapped, and released her mouth so that he
might open the door. She would have to leave
very soon. Don’t favour your father much,
either, if it comes to that. "I do," replied Jack, carelessly.
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