All our fraternity are afraid of
him; but I laugh at his threats. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so
—“will say! What are we to tell people?
“Besides, what am I to tell your father?”
At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to
return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an
enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her
flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent
consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it
became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the
position of things if she returned. She became exceptionally considerate and affectionate with her
father and aunt, and more and more concerned about the coming catastrophe that
she was about to precipitate upon them. ‘Parbleu, that pig, he will ruin all. You have actually given up a dinner-party to dine alone with
me. Jonathan had not deceived him. Never mind, I’ve got plenty. .
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