“I thought you weren’t getting along so well with your
mother these days. ’
A faint smile crossed Gerald’s lips. John, he was
between me and the door. And, setting down the
link, he proceeded deliberately to untie his cravat. Sometimes I try to talk. “I changed my last shilling yesterday. His eyes were closed. Then she sat watching the play,
sometimes offering a helpful suggestion, sometimes letting her attention wander
to the smoothly shining arms she had folded across her knees just below the edge
of the table. Her head swam. “The fool I have been!” he cried; and now
speech was coming to him. Great vistas of history opened, and she and
her aunt were near reverting to the primitive and passionate and entirely
indecorous arboreal—were swinging from branches by the arms, and really
going on quite dreadfully—when their arrival at the Palsworthys’ happily
checked this play of fancy, and brought Ann Veronica back to the exigencies of
the wrappered life again. We wore invisible chains and
invisible blinkers. After these dinners they would have a walk, usually to the Thames
Embankment to see the two sweeps of river on either side of Waterloo Bridge;
and then they would part at Westminster Bridge, perhaps, and he would go on to
Waterloo.
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