. She put her head out of the window. Then, her body still tense with the atoms of anger, she sat
down upon the edge of the bed and rocked from side to side. ”
“You are willing to give up your position, your beautiful houses, your carriages
and milliner’s accounts to come back to Bohemianism?”
“Why not?” Annabel declared. She looked
directly at his face, his perpetually graying hair, his
hawkish nose, his long cheekbones. He accepted this confession conditionally: that no young man had kissed her. ”
“And besides, when it comes to the idea of queens,” Ann Veronica went on,
“there’s twenty-one and a half million women to twenty million men. Accordingly, when she arrived at the
Shovels, with which, as an old haunt in her bygone days of wretchedness she
was well acquainted, instead of entering the principal apartment, which she saw
at a glance was crowded with company of both sexes, she turned into a small
room on the left of the bar, and, as an excuse for so doing, called for something
to drink. Do you think she does?”
Ann Veronica picked among her salad with a judicial expression of face.
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