’
She sighed. ”
She was silent for a time, with her nose on the pillow, and that brought her to:
“What’s the good of pretending?
“I love him,” she said aloud to the dim forms of her room, and repeated it, and
went on to imagine herself doing acts of tragically dog-like devotion to the
biologist, who, for the purposes of the drama, remained entirely unconscious of
and indifferent to her proceedings. “I’ll
go. I
believe he’s divorced. "
"Of course—of course," returned Wood, hastily; "anything's better than that. I wonder what he’ll say?”
CHAPTER THE SIXTH
EXPOSTULATIONS
Part 1
The next morning opened calmly, and Ann Veronica sat in her own room, her
very own room, and consumed an egg and marmalade, and read the
advertisements in the Daily Telegraph. Without turning or looking in his
direction she leaned forwards, her head supported upon her fingers, her elbows
upon her knees. The wheel and the navigating instruments were
sternward, under a spread of heavy canvas, a protection against rain and sun. The unfortunate carpenter struggled violently, but ineffectually. “Mind my smoking?” said Roddy. Why? He could preach the Word and
deny Love!—tame the savage heart, succour broken white men!—pray with his
face strained with religious fervour! The idea made her dizzy because it was so
inexplicable. The door was then locked, and he was left alone. Earles,” Anna said.
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