“But why is it preposterous?” asked Ann Veronica, and fiddled with a pipe on
the mantel. She doubted if Manning would even listen
to that. Her desires were not for riches. Neither combatant could
use his sword; and in strength the fugitive was evidently superior to his
antagonist. “There ought to be a Censorship
of Books. Only it was with a further and most unbelieving
shrug of the shoulders that he resumed his seat. He panted for a moment with unuttered replies, and then, with a scornful
gesture, got up and left the cell. They travelled past the few idle sightseers who had braved the uninviting
evening to see what the Suffragettes might be doing; they pulled up
unchallenged within thirty yards of those coveted portals. But all these hours, trying to teach the child wariness toward life,
and the moment his back was turned, this!
He was, perhaps, still dazed by the inner revelation—his own interest in Ruth. ”
The wedding-breakfast was for Ann Veronica a spectacle of the unreal
consuming the real; she liked that part very well, until she was carelessly served
against her expressed wishes with mayonnaise. With people of that sort all
sorts of things may happen.
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