McClintock does it; and he knows why. The atmosphere at dinner
was not propitious. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so
—“will say! What are we to tell people?
“Besides, what am I to tell your father?”
At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to
return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an
enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her
flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent
consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it
became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the
position of things if she returned. Why was she noting things like this? Capes seemed selfpossessed and elaborately genial and commonplace, but she knew him to be
nervous by a little occasional clumsiness, by the faintest shadow of vulgarity in
the urgency of his hospitality. She taught him all the lore she had; about bird-life and tree-life and the changing
mysteries of the sea. “Well?”
“I don’t care a rap for all these things. ”
Anna was speechless, but she had presence of mind enough to sit still until she
had recovered herself. "It's scarcely necessary," replied Wild; "however, if you require it, certainly. But men are so careless, there's no trusting anything to them! However, I must
try to brazen it out.
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