Her aunt was blandly amiable above a certain tremulous
undertow, and talked as if to a caller about the alarming spread of marigolds that
summer at the end of the garden, a sort of Yellow Peril to all the smaller hardy
annuals, while her father brought some papers to table and presented himself as
preoccupied with them. ” Elizabeth, the parlormaid, kept
coming in to hand vegetables whenever there seemed a chance of Ann Veronica
asking for an interview. It was not due to
shyness: it was the inherent instinct of the Woman, a protective fear that she
must retain some elements of mystery in order to hold the interest of the male. In doing this, he chanced to raise his eyes and
half fancied he beheld, shaded by a pillar at the extremity of the western aisle,
the horrible countenance of the thief-taker. "He never let me keep a dog or a cat about the house. To surrender himself to the law, to face trial and imprisonment, was out of the
question.
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