And what took you to Remenham House?’
‘I shall come to that presently,’ said Gerald cautiously. The
morning swims in the lagoon had thickened the red corpuscle. The van started with a jerk and rumbled on its way. “I’m ready,” said Ann Veronica, closing her microscope-box with a click, and
looking for one brief instant up the laboratory. “What were you doing outside Miss Pellissier’s flat to-night? You were looking
at her windows. ”
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She went inside the house, thinking of Sebastian,
worrying. The party resolved itself for Ann Veronica into a
game in which she manoeuvred unostentatiously and finally unsuccessfully to
avoid talking alone with this gentleman. Apparently he had projected beyond his table some hypnotic thought, for it had
held him all through the dining hour. They alighted at the restaurant, and stood for a moment in the passage looking
into the crowded room. "Is there anything wrong with it?"
"Wrong? Why, you have been imposed upon somewhere. A tourist caravan of four pole-chairs
jogged along a narrow street. But days had
now passed. ‘Come inside at once, child. ‘I’ll get the key,’ said Roding, turning abruptly.
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