With each step his
heartbeat increased exponentially. “If you wish,” he said, “I will go there in the morning and see what can be done
for him. The Jacobite. She rode him gently. Under the circumstances you must permit me to be the best judge of
the identity of the young lady who did me the honour, as an old family friend, of
dining with me. But if we had gone
under—!”
They regarded one another silently, and Ann Veronica had one of her
penetrating flashes. “I have heard these things from you before, and you have had
my answer. I don't believe he is much past forty. . My mind is full of ideas and images that I have been cherishing
and accumulating—dreams of travelling side by side, of lunching quietly
together in some jolly restaurant, of moonlight and music and all that side of life,
of seeing you dressed like a queen and shining in some brilliant throng—mine;
of your looking at flowers in some old-world garden, our garden—there are
splendid places to be got down in Surrey, and a little runabout motor is quite
within my means. And when she took and married that Mr Charvill, we didn’t think to
see her at Remenham House no more.
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