He
yelled to her, asking her if she wished to have a drink with
him, which she refused. One gets drawn into things. Ann Veronica felt no repulsion at the prospect. "
"A friend is not so soon gained as lost," replied Wood; "but how has the
prediction been fulfilled, Joan, eh?"
"I thought you would have guessed, Sir," replied the widow, timidly. Capes had altered scarcely at all during the interval, except for a new
quality of smartness in the cut of his clothes, but Ann Veronica was nearly half
an inch taller; her face was at once stronger and softer, her neck firmer and
rounder, and her carriage definitely more womanly than it had been in the days
of her rebellion. Ann Veronica forgot him as soon as she was through the gate, and her face
resumed its expression of stern preoccupation. The curtain before one mystery was torn aside, and she saw in reality
what lay behind the impulse that had led her into the young man's room. ”
He sat for a moment, absorbing. ‘The secret passage!’
It did not take long to find the mechanism of the candlesconce that opened the
door. “It has all been a
mistake, hasn’t it?”
“No more talking,” the doctor interposed. "Good-b'ye, Jack," said Figg, putting on his hat. “Annabel!” she exclaimed. A moistened velvet touch found her tongue. She seized the
key, and he grasped her hand and squeezed it roughly and painfully between the
handle and the ward as she tried to turn it.
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