Her eyes were
perhaps a little brighter than usual, the firelight played about her hair, there
seemed to him to be a sudden softening of the straight firm mouth. “Do not look so uncomfortable, both of you,” she begged. He went on munching his water-chestnuts, and stared at the skyline. All the rest of our lives would be together then,
Ann Veronica. When you've seized
him, cough thrice thus,—and two rough-looking gentlemen will make their
appearance. “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. “Let me know the truth. “Can you come out tonight?”
“Um, sure, I guess. If you have not been arrested, we have been disturbed; and it is but
just and reasonable you should pay for occasioning such disturbance. But tell me how have
you escaped from the confinement in which you were placed—come and sit by
me—here—upon the bed—give me your hand—and tell me all about it. I don’t suggest any philanthropy. We’re
different. Except for one memorable school excursion to Paris, Ann Veronica had never
yet been outside England. "
He laughed and pushed back his chair.
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