’ She shook her head sadly. ”
She glanced shyly at the mirror above her dressing-table, and then about her at
the furniture, as though it might penetrate to the thoughts that peeped in her
mind. ’
Mrs Ibstock’s lips tightened and she looked away a moment. . “Fred,” he said, “do you remember taking me to dinner at the ‘Ambassador’s,’
one evening last September, to meet a girl who was singing there? Hamilton and
Drummond and his lot were with us. Presently he reached out and laid his
hand upon Spurlock's motionless shoulders. Montressor’s guests were. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think
the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The
abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white
sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you
really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets
without giving any return?”
“I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. All the influences about her worked with her own predisposition and
against all the traditions of her home and upbringing to deal with the facts of life
in an unabashed manner.
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