”
The girl received this intimation in silence, but the face that looked down
upon the gas fire took an expression of obstinacy that brought out a hitherto
latent resemblance between parent and child. He continued to do this
for the rest of the evening intermittently, in and out, among other topics. Then as she drew nearer paint showed upon her face,
and a harsh purpose behind the quiet expression of her open countenance, and a
sort of unreality in her splendor betrayed itself for which Ann Veronica could not
recall the right word—a word, half understood, that lurked and hid in her mind,
the word “meretricious. ‘I do not know your Gérard. I have always been lonely. ’
His face changed, all the humour and tenderness leaving it in an instant. She rose at once with a little
exclamation, half of surprise, half of pleasure. “How’d you know it was me?”
He looked
conspiratorially into the room for hidden informants.
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